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guards: T. Truxton Hare, Pennsylvania 1900, and Pudge Heffelfinger, Yale...
...Hare & Tortoise. In his job, the great ad-libber leaves nothing to luck. He wins by being hare & tortoise both-by carefully plugging along with the help of a batch of scriptwriters and a roomful of filing cabinets, then racing ahead on his own sharp wit. In any Pepsodent broadcast, it's a wise crack that knows its own father...
Report from Butch. First of these returns from the front was brought in by the Navy's "Butch" O'Hare. What the Navy needed, he told Grumman men, was a fighter aircraft that could outclimb and outmaneuver a Zero, carry more .50-caliber guns than the Wildcat (four), lug a decent load of armor, and range farther than any Navy fighter had ever ranged before...
This was all Grumman's balding chief engineer Bill Schwendler wanted to hear. He went back to work, revamped his de signs, reviewed them with many another Navy fighter pilot as the job grew. By August, less than four months after O'Hare had laid down the fighter's law, the prototype was flying...
DOUBLE TRAGEDY-Freeman Wills Crofts- Dodd, Mead ($2). A run-with-the-hare and hunt-with-the-hounds affair in which a hard-up English business man murders his wife's rich uncle, and covers his tracks from everybody but the patient and methodical Inspector French, who provides a first-class exercise in clue chasing and deduction...