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...target range where a good shot can bring down a parachutist...
...northeast Wyoming, near Sundance, one day last week, Parachutist George Hopkins leaped out of an airplane to win a $50 bet. The problem was to collect. For George Hopkins landed, as the bet prescribed, on Devil's Tower. A lava blister, formed by an eruption 20,000,000 years ago, Devil's Tower is a gigantic rock stump rising 1,200 feet into the sky. Teddy Roosevelt made it the country's first national monument. Its weathered sides are fluted, nearly vertical, practically unscalable...
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...