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...turned historian in They Fought with What They Had to tell the griefs of U.S. airmen in the first months of the Pacific war; and the submariners got some of their due in Vice Admiral Charles Lockwood's Sink 'Em All and Battle Submerged by Rear Admiral Harley Cope and Captain Walter Karig. For pure excitement, there was nothing better than the diary kept by a French fighter pilot in the British air force, Pierre Clostermann's The Big Show...
...payroll, at the stiff retainer of $500 a month. Four weeks later, Blauner was back in Boyle's office in a high state of excitement because the RFC, for the second time, had turned down Lithofold's loan application. Boyle picked up his telephone and called Chairman Harley Hise of RFC. Blauner got an appointment with Hise within the hour. Three days later, in March 1949, Lithofold was granted a loan of $80,000, followed shortly by two others totaling...
Successful Phone Call. Someone at the conference-Toole couldn't remember who-mentioned the magic name of Bill Boyle, now chairman of the Democratic National Committee. The American Lithofold people went to Boyle's Washington office. Boyle called Harley Hise, then RFC chairman, and said, "Harley, I have some friends in the office here of Jim Finnegan's. I would like for you to arrange to see them this afternoon if possible in connection with a loan." Toole recorded in his diary that, three days after this phone call, the loan application reached a "strange, strenuous...
...Mich, last week, newsmen climbed into a grey, rocket-like auto only 3 ft. high, sent it hurtling around the test track at speeds up to 110 m.p.h. It was the first public showing of G.M.'s Le Sabre, the experimental convertible which G.M. Designer and Style Boss Harley J. Earl called "the car of the future." Even if motorists never get to buy a car exactly like Designer Earl's dream car, future G.M. models will have some of Le Sabre's 80 new gadgets and engineering changes...
...educated cowboys, had seen little Sul Ross College (enrollment: 1,000) of Alpine, Texas, ride off with the team title for the third straight year. Cotton Rosser's tight seat on the "rank" (i.e., fighting) stock won him individual show honors. But Sul Ross's captain, Harley May, again rode away with the All-Around Cowboy title (based on total points accumulated in year-long competition), with an all-around performance...