Word: perkinses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because some U.S. fliers went visiting in Essex, England, a chubby 9-year-old with a prodigious gift for piano-playing arrived in Watertown, Mass, last week. The youngster is blind Jimmy Osborne, who never studied music beyond listening to the BBC and to phonograph records. Now he is going...
Two classes of men are eligible for consideration, Perkins reports. First, civilians, who must be 17 years old at the date of enlistment. Anyone who will be 18 before November 1 may ask to be accepted for enlistment before his eighteenth birthday, and be kept on inactive duty until November...
The second class of eligible individuals consists of former members of the Army Air Corps Enlisted Reserve now on inactive duty. There may be some members of that Reserve now in College, Perkins continued in a memorandum to the SERVICE NEWS. Such Reservists, he said, must not reach their nineteenth...
"Physical standards are best dealt with by appearing before a Navy Medical Board," Perkins continues. "There is no use applying for this program, however, unless you have 20 /20 eyes."
"Applicants for this program," Perkins says, "are to report at the Office of Naval Officer Procurement, 150 Causeway Street, Boston. The may go any day except Sunday, and they should arrive at 8 o'clock in the morning. Once, you have arrived at Causeway Street, the Navy will do the...