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...Navy planes had prouder records in World War II than those made by Grumman Aircraft-the Wildcat and Hellcat fighters and the Avenger torpedo bomber. After the Battle of Savo Island, James Forrestal, then Under Secretary of the Navy, declared flatly: "Grumman saved Guadalcanal." In the Battle of the Marianas, which pilots called "the turkey shoot," they downed 360 Japanese planes in a single day, the record...
...make better fighting planes. Lieut. Commander Edward ("Butch") O'Hare (five Japanese bombers shot down and another crippled in a single engagement) visited the plant, talked of the need for a bigger, faster, more heavily armed fighter. Swirbul listened attentively. Within seven months the F6F Hellcat was rolling off the production line, the first U.S. fighter designed after Pearl Harbor to get into action...
Died. Leon A. Swirbul, 62. a founder and president since 1946 of Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp., whose morale-boosting labor policies helped the company, with its Wildcat and Hellcat fighters, lead the industry in World War II combat-plane production; of pneumonia while ill with cancer; in Manhattan (see BUSINESS...
Vice President Nixon is truly the old hellcat when he says [Oct. 13]: "The only way we could get the crooks out of the Truman Administration was to put them in jail." What are Goldfine and Adams doing running around loose...
...There is Tom's cousin George, a would-be painter turned psychoanalyst, and George's wife, whose mind is an ambush out of which Freud continually jumps ("Can't the Cross be a phallic symbol?"). All the "malefactors" are somewhat mystified by one of their hellcat playmates from the old Paris days, who has dropped their cultish enthusiasms, become a Roman Catholic, and is running a kind of cooperative flophouse hostel for Bowery bums. Tom pooh-poohs this project and is much more susceptible to a cocktail houri and budding lady poet named Cynthia Vail, who shows...