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...John van Kuren ("Scarsdale Jack") Newkirk, death-dealing leader of the A.V.G. Second Pursuit Squadron, was killed last week. Newkirk had started to be a marksman at the age of five, when he got a bow & arrow. When he was ten his friends in Scarsdale, N.Y. dared him to shoot the first person who came along. That person happened to be the county sheriff, but Jack let fly anyway. When he grew up he studied chemistry and aeronautical engineering. A double mastoid operation in childhood almost kept him out of the Navy's air school at Pensacola...
Over Rangoon a protective covey of American-flown Tomahawks (P-40s) and British Hurricanes beat off incessant waves of day & night bombing attacks. Paced by John Van Kuren ("Scarsdale Jack") Newkirk (25 Jap planes shot down), who cut short a week-old honeymoon last July to join the American Volunteer Group, the outnumbered U.S., British, Australian, Canadian and Indian pilots in Burma chalked up 122 enemy planes against only five losses for themselves...
Matthew Kuykendall landed with a bullet crease in his forehead, oil from a smashed feed line on his flying suit. Said he: "Now I'm really mad." Squadron Leader John Newkirk, who had eight Japs to his credit by last week, radioed his wife in Scarsdale, N.Y. : "There were not enough of them to keep us busy...
...demonstration took place in Rangoon. Part of the international volunteer air force had been assigned by the Chinese to hold an umbrella over the ocean inlet of the Burma Road. Another group (including a onetime TIME Inc. office boy, John Newkirk) protected Kunming, the inland terminus. On Dec. 23, the Japanese came over Rangoon for the first time, lost six bombers to the Flying Tigers who lost four planes, two pilots...
Mazein is Corn Products Refining Co.'s trade name for zein, a protein substance which occurs in corn. Chemist William Bentley Newkirk of Corn Products has spent seven years making mazein into a successful plastic. He obtains it from gluten-a residue of starch manufacture which is ordinarily sold as hog & cattle feed at 2? per lb.-by extracting it with solvents, purifying and precipitating it. The resultant plastic, soluble in both paint solutions and water, is a sort of cross between casein and bakelite. Uses: buttons, laminated boards, high-speed printing ink ingredient, waterproof and oilproof varnish...