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Early Tuesday afternoon the Atlantic Seaboard had its own air-raid scare. Planes from Mitchel Field, L.I. took the air (see p. 61). Improvised sirens sounded in the streets of Manhattan. Civilian planes were grounded. Schoolchildren were sent home...
...William O. Ryan, Chief of the Fourth Interceptor Command: "You don't send planes up unless you know what the enemy is doing and where he is going, and you don't send planes up in the dark unless you know what you are doing.") But at Mitchel Field, L.I. the alarm came in daylight, and although it was false the air force took off in good faith to defend New York City...
...half an hour before lunchtime when the first siren screamed; about noon practically the whole Mitchel air fleet was aloft: medium Martin bombers (with machine guns, but no bombs in their racks), mean-looking, olive-drab...
...result of a long distance telephone call from William J. Mitchel DBS station manager, to Robert S. Kieve '43, the Network's program director, the broadcast will be a radio dramatization of Thomas Wolfe's "Only the Dead Know Brooklyn...
...face of these facts, Mitchel Field's airmen were hard put to it to explain Mrs. Kramer's indictment. Some saw a glimmer of significance in the fact that the letter was printed as an exclusive story by Newsday, a bumptious local daily. Editor of Newsday is Alicia Patterson (Mrs. Harry Guggenheim) daughter of Captain Joseph Patterson, isolationist owner of the great New York Daily News...