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Last week three Army flyers deliberately flew into the hurricane to observe it. The A20 Havoc bomber, bucking winds of 125 m.p.h., reached the eye of the storm off Chesapeake Bay, got safely back to Washington. The flyers (Colonel Lloyd B. Woods, ist Lieut. Frank Record, Major Harry Wexler, a meteorologist) reported that it was not as bad as flying through a summer thunderstorm. Their chief scientific observation: besides its horizontal circular motion, a hurricane has strong upward air currents at its vortex and down currents at its perimeter. The plane was sucked up so steeply at the vortex that...
...Douglas' A26 Invader, an improved version of the reliable A20 Havoc...
...June Havoc, Broadway musicomedienne (Mexican Hay ride), had her broken leg taken out of a plaster cast, went off to Hollywood to star in the cast of Brewster's Millions. Present at the taking-out party: her sister Gypsy Rose Lee, reported by New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson to be expecting a child in February and planning to divorce her husband, Actor Alexander Kirkland...
...Londoners in deep shelters. It drove other thousands to the country. It kept thousands, at work aboveground, in a state of sustained apprehension which the Great Blitz never matched. As inaccurate as it was impersonal, it was a weapon precisely designed for sprawling London, precisely calculated to raise havoc with civilian life...
Languages, transfers, and final exams have conspired to wreak havoc with last term's starting lineup. First baseman Bob Slattery and third baseman Bill Lutz are now in Midshipmen's School, while center fielder George Boston, catcher Bill Harding, and right fielder Sherman Clark, the three leading hitters of last term's outfit, and the only ones who topped 300, are all ineligible during the summer term...