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Reach for the Sky, by Paul Brickhill. The heroic story of a legless R.A.F. ace who destroyed 22½ enemy planes, kept his German captors busy recapturing him (TIME...
Reach for the Sky, by Paul Brickhill. The heroic story of Douglas Bader, a legless RAF ace who fought in the Battle of Britain, destroyed 22½ enemy planes and kept his German captors busy recapturing him (TIME...
...Horizons. The Germans took elaborate precautions to hold onto their legless prisoner. They took away his legs, held him in a room with locked windows, and guarded him with loaded rifles. But after Bader was shipped to Germany, he got his legs back, escaped twice more, was caught both times. When not escaping or planning escape, he was an intransigent troublemaker for the Germans. He considered that to be his duty. Courageously challenging, baiting and tormenting his captors, he worked himself to the very end of the war prisoner line-the moated punishment camp at Kolditz Castle in Saxony. There...
...Monsters Gog (Ivan Tors; United Artists) is a tidy, legless little robot with five arms, a beer-barrel belly, and a head like a chrome-plated grapefruit with a gleaming red aerial on top. Gog is married-or something-to another robot named Magog, and they both work in a highly secret space-research institute, hidden somewhere underneath the great American desert, which Herbert Marshall runs for the Government...
...Michigan, Republican Representative Charles E. Potter, a legless World War II veteran, was ahead of Democratic Senator Blair Moody, ex-newsman who was making his first political race...