Word: parachutist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shot partly on the 501st's home grounds at Fort Benning, Ga., Parachute Battalion follows the rigorous training of a modern parachutist with documentary nicety. And its shiploads of husky, fully equipped youngsters cascading out of their transports like peas from a pod make first-rate drama...
...plan for gas conservation: "Park more and drive less." ∙ ∙ Enormously popular with the British as radio entertainers, oldtime U.S. Film Stars Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels will come home next week "to tell the people of America what is needed for the war effort. . . ." ∙ ∙ Parachutist Max Schmeling will referee a prize fight in Brussels next week. He's still on "recovery leave." ∙ ∙ When veteran Speed Flyer Laura Ingalls landed at Albuquerque her landing gear crumpled and the ship did a headstand. Isolationist Laura, uninjured, promptly blamed her defective landing gear on "this system...
...Russians to have plugged in a call from a stranger in a phone booth. The stranger asked the location of some "communication enterprises." She said: "One moment please; I'll look up the information." She called the militia, who went to the booth, found a Nazi parachutist...
What does a country doctor do when, on his rounds, he encounters a Nazi parachutist? In the British Lancet which reached the U.S. last week, an anonymous doctor told what he had done. He had just left a farmhouse after delivering a baby. As he stuck his forceps in his hip pocket, he saw an airplane "crashing to earth and the ... pilot . . . floating gracefully from the sky." The doctor dashed back to the farm, snatched up a pitchfork, went after the parachutist, whom he found in the garden, still tangled in his harness...
Ruefully rubbing his backside, the shaken doctor put some highly technical questions to the parachutist, to his amazement received accurate answers. At that point the informal medical examination was interrupted by the arrival of Home Guards, who congratulated the doctor on his capture, bore the invader off. The doctor never saw him again...