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...enmity-the Air Force last year ordered jet pilots not to roar through the sonic barrier near populated areas. The ADC's chief, General Ben Chidlaw, put the problem to friendly Cartoonist Milton Caniff, whose syndicated (550 papers) Steve Canyon promptly got his jet base out of a jam with local townspeople. Last week, in Shotgun Wedding, ADC men read the even more instructive how-to-do-it story of a real but unnamed jet base commander (actually, Colonel Harry Shoup of Truax Field at Madison, Wis.). The story...
...presidential dedication of an aerial fire-fighting depot. Places on the platform with Ike were assigned to public officeholders; this excluded many of the state's Republican Party leaders, but would have given a seat to rabidly New Dealing Senator James Murray-who failed to appear (a traffic jam delayed him, his friends said). During a brief talk about natural resources, however, the President did slip in a plug for the G.O.P. senatorial candidate. Representative Wesley D'Ewart, whom Ike described as "my good friend...
...planes "that didn't have but one little bitty engine," becomes incensed when told two of his engines need fixing. "What do you mean, it's in no condition to fly!" he screams. "Don't you have any guts?" Will manages to get into the extraordinary jam of being awarded two medals posthumously ("We had give our lives for our country, which was about as far beyond the call of duty as you could get") while he is still alive. Will tells his own story, drawl and all, and is very funny telling...
...fundamentals of botany proved to be just as dangerous as Lady Ampthill had suggested. Poet Wilfrid Blunt, "a strikingly handsome" married man of 53, attempted to seduce her in the best tradition of Victorian villainy. Blunt wore Arab dress and exuded a virile masculinity breathtakingly different from the jam and waxworks of everyday life. "He took me through the park to a wood which was very pretty," Emily wrote his Rev. He at once took my hand and kissed it and stroked it, said he adored me, which I told him I was very glad...
Clean Sweep. During last month's Senate filibuster, Vermont's rustic George Aiken, chairman of the Agriculture Committee, almost despaired of bringing the Administration's farm bill to a vote during the Senate's session-end log jam. Since his committee had voted against him, he faced a major floor fight to restore President Eisenhower's flexible formula...