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...Wholesale (20th Century-Fox) waters down and sugars up Jerome Weidman's merciless novel about the rise of a thoroughgoing heel in Manhattan's garment center. In the film, the heel has been transformed into a hellcat (Susan Hayward), still greedy and pushy, but with as much talent as guile, a conscience to catch up with her treacheries, and the sheen of Fifth Avenue instead of the flashiness of Seventh...
...four years everybody in VF-781 had been too busy flying in the present to bother polishing up the past. One weekend every month 36 Naval Reserve pilots would converge on the Los Alamitos (Calif.) Naval Air Station and thunder off on maneuvers in their stubby Grumman Hellcat fighters-unanimously elated to escape from the humdrum chores of selling insurance, studying law or changing diapers. Their bashful, blond skipper, Lieut. Commander Collin Oveland, 32, was a weekday Mercury salesman who had dared them into the Navy's sassiest, .busiest, closest-knit Sunday fighter outfit-with first place in flight...
...half hours later, a 31-year-old Pennsylvania airport manager named George Humphrey got the fright of his life as he putted along near Fort Dix, N.J. in a Piper Super-Cruiser. A Navy F6F Hellcat fighter came unexpectedly up beneath him and shot out ahead of his plane, giving him "a terrific prop wash...
...Healthy Hellcats. In the sick aircraft industry, Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. was hale & hearty. Grumman, whose wartime Hellcat and Avenger designs and production earned it fat postwar Navy orders, declared a $1.50 dividend, bringing its 1947 total...
Turn of the Wheel. He was not master of his house in BuAer. He got no credit for cutting administrative corners to procure new planes which paid off after Pearl Harbor: the Dauntless, the Avenger, the Hellcat. He became Commander, Air, Pacific (in 1942) and it looked like the fulfillment of his dreams, until it turned into desk duty. When a commander was picked for the great central Pacific offensive in 1943, not Jack Towers but Battleshipman Raymond Ames Spruance...