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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...list was too impressive to dismiss. Next day the Navy's top test pilot appeared to back up Radford's claims. Captain Frederick M. Trapnell, 47, commander of the Naval Air Test Center at Patuxent River, Md., has probably flown more types of planes than any other U.S. pilot. He testified that standard Navy radar had no trouble picking up small jet fighters at 40,000 ft., that Navy fighters had made interceptions at that altitude by day and by night. Said Trapnell: "If you were to ride as an observer...
From the press table (where he was sitting as Newsweek's military columnist), retired General Carl "Tooey" Spaatz, 58, former Air Force Chief of Staff, shouted: "Am I supposed to be a witness here?" He added: "If I didn't make that statement, I'm willing to make it now." Radford retorted mildly: "We haven't quite reached that stage. We have camera guns that do almost as well...
...burly mortal visited the Olympian chamber of the U.S. Supreme Court one morning last week to see his former Cabinet colleague, Tom Clark, mount the bench for the first time. Confronted by a court attache as he searched for a seat, the visitor announced himself: "I'm Secretary Johnson." "What are you secretary of?" asked the attendant, unimpressed...
Oklahous A. & M. 28, Drake...
...Texas Tech 0 7 0 0--7 USC 0 0 0 10--10 California 0 7 0 9--16 Santa Clara 0 0 0 14--14 UCLA 0 0 0 0--0 William & Mary 0 6 7 0--13 Michigan State 21 0 7 14--48 Texas A. & M. 0 6 0 0--6 Texas Christ. 14 0 14 .0--28 Wake Forest 7 0 7 0--14 North Carolina 0 14 7 7--28 N. Carolina St. 0 7 0 8--13 Duke...