Word: mate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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FOLIO ON FLORENCE WHITE-Will Oursler-Simon & Schuster ($2). The girl secretary of a Manhattan aircraft executive, having done time on a framed-up theft charge, is accused of killing her ex-office mate. Two keen lawyers take up cudgels for her, unearth another and very grisly murder, and by swift thinking and quick action bring the well-tangled plot to a satisfactory solution...
Since then I have served, without complaint, in the Atlantic, Caribbean and the Pacific—wherever they chose to send me. I believe that it is my duty to serve my country in whatever capacity I am best suited and at present that is as second mate aboard this oil tanker. But, if some of these stupid politicians think that it is my duty to risk my life in order to fill the tanks of pleasure cars to the brim, they will have another think coming. I believe that they will soon find out that there are quite a few more...
...midst of the biggest air-training program in history, he can look back to 1918 for experience. As Assistant Director of Military Aeronautics that year, he was boss of 30 training schools, 15,000 officers, 125,000 enlisted men. He was also a devoted follower of his old flying mate, spectacular bemedaled Billy Mitchell...
...Peter Doyle. They were cheered by the startling letters of Mrs. Anne Gilchrist. She had read the Leaves and wrote their author: "Nothing in life or death can tear out of my heart the passionate belief that one day I shall hear that voice say to me, 'My mate. The one I so much want. Bride, wife, indissoluble, eternal.' ... O come, come, my darling, look into these eyes and see the long ardent aspiring soul in them...
Actor Ladd, 24, is Paramount's other male find of the wartime season. Like his studio mate, he is also 1-A in the draft...