Word: jo
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...October 1917, he found out what his hands were for. He began to fly for the Army, first as an enlisted cadet in the Signal Corps, then as a second lieutenant and instructor. He also, in 1917, married Josephine ("Jo") Daniels (no kin to Josephus), whose hair has turned white in some 25 years with Jimmy Doolittle. Devoted Jo Doolittle had a good deal to do with making Jimmy Doolittle the foremost U.S. airman of World...
...Doolittle later made the Jacksonville-San Diego flight in 21 hours, 19 minutes (it had never been done before under 24 hours). Still later, he broke many other records. Once, for American Airlines, he and Jo Doolittle flew a Lockheed transport through cloud, fog and snow from New York to San Diego in eleven hours, 59 minutes-just four minutes better than the previous transport record. "Damn poor piloting," said Doolittle, who had made the flight mainly on his instruments...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Jo Hayden (Judy Garland), Jimmy Metcalfe (George Murphy) and Harry Palmer (Gene Kelly) have one thing in common: they are smalltime song-&-dancers whose hearts are set on one day appearing at that Pantheon of U.S. vaudeville, The Palace. Jimmy is a sort of Irish George Raft, who loves Jo. Jo is a surprisingly sweet young girl, who unfortunately loves Harry. Harry is a dangerous but successful novelty in musicomedy: a character who begins as a squirrel-collared masher and winds up, without too much grinding of gears, as a hero. In the course of this cinemetamorphosis...
...hump had for a long time been closer than most people knew. But Brazil had not been pushed into the war by the U.S.; she had made her own choice. When someone repeated Axis radio threats to turn Brazil's Independence Day (Sept. 7) into São João Day (which Rio celebrates with fireworks), Aranha nimbly cracked back: Brazil would make it a St. Bartholomew's Day for Axis airmen...
...Though it has lost fewer big names to the armed services than Hollywood, gone or going are Playwrights Sidney Kingsley (Dead End), Thornton Wilder (Our Town), William Saroyan, Jerome Chodorov (My Sister Eileen), Irwin Shaw (Bury the Dead); Actors Maurice Evans, Burgess Meredith, Lee J. Cobb; top Scene Designers Jo Mielziner, Donald Oenslager. Worse, Actors' Equity has been drained of a good fourth of its male rank & file. Casting takes longer and has to be warier: many an actor still here today may be gone tomorrow. Most available chorus men have either hairless cheeks or hairless heads. Already...