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Captain Don Gentile, ace fighter pilot (TIME, April 28), on furlough in his hometown, Piqua, Ohio, found the one: pretty Isabel Masdea. Said he: "She's the girl I love...
...citizens of Piqua, Ohio (pronounced Pick-wah) who well remembered Tavernkeeper Patsy Gentile's boy Dominic as the high-school kid who used to buzz St. Boniface's Church in his Arrow Sport biplane, the Eighth's announcement of 30 planes was good enough. They solemnly petitioned President Roosevelt to let Hero Gentile come home...
...Going Native exhibits Dr. Gogarty's prose in a lively state of decay. It concerns the adventures of a Casanovian Irishman, Gideon Ouseley, among the English. About it hangs an odd flavor of the old Evelyn Waugh, not least in the dedication "to Alfred and Patricia Flesh of Piqua." It begins with a ripe and shameless piece of blarney in which Ouseley describes his parting with the late William Butler Yeats ("Grandeur is gone, Ouseley, grandeur is gone . . .") and a sufficient hint that Ouseley represents Gogarty himself...
...Dillinger, he took to cracking banks and shooting police as soon as he got out. At 27, he and his three henchmen-James Dalhover, Clarence Shaffer, Charles Geisking-are wanted for nine stickups, robberies and jail escapes, for murdering an officer in Anderson, another in Indianapolis, a clerk in Piqua, Ohio. Like Dillinger, Brady has staged a spectacular jail break, and last week Brady, Dalhover and Shaffer added a fillip to their record by lifting $2,500 from the bank in Brady's home town, Goodland...
...Corp.'s Manhattan laboratory has lately been a hotbed of Negro jazz-Duke Ellington and Don Redman with their high-spiced bands, Torch-Singers Ethel Waters and Adelaide Hall, Cecil Mack's choir; the four Mills Brothers who learned to sing like tubas and saxophones back in Piqua, Ohio, because they could not afford to buy the instruments; Tapdancer Bill Robinson who went to the laboratory at midnight because his feet twinkle faster when the night is half done...