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Duncan Norton-Taylor is a home-lover's Quentin Reynolds. Correspondent Reynolds is 6 ft. i in. tall, weighs 220 lb., dines with generals, calls everybody by his first name, and gives the bide-at-home a keen sense of participation in great and dangerous affairs. Correspondent Norton-Taylor is 5 ft. 4 in. tall, weighs 130 lb., is surprised if a major is nice to him, is frightened by clouds, prefers fingers to cotton in his ears when any firing is going on, and in general gives an endearing sense of what most fighters want most...
...tunnel-busters is Major William Benedict, who is the son of a San Quentin Penitentiary guard. He was credited last week with five railroad tunnels "destroyed" (i.e.,completely blocked). So dangerous is this work deemed to be that Benedict, a squadron commander, personally attends to all tunnel-busting required of his outfit...
Married. Army Captain Quentin Roosevelt, 24, youngest son of Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr.; and American Red Cross Worker Frances Webb, 26, of Kansas City and Smith College ('38); in Blandford, England. Butterfly-Collector Roosevelt collected the Silver Star and a shell fragment with the field artillery in North Africa. His best man: his father...
...Warden Duffy does not believe in discussing the crimes of his performers. At least one has got a good job (radio announcer) on leaving San Quentin. That, says Duffy, is one of the show's purposes: to help the prisoners in society when they are released. Said one San Quentinite recently of the radio cast: "There's more life in this handful of guys than there was in the whole prison back...
...Quentin on the Air would like to get a commercial sponsor. A facetious inmate suggested Yale & Towne Mfg. Co. (locks for safes, etc.), but he would have to meet the program's dignified standards. As it is now, Mutual pays the line charges, the San Quentin inmate fund pays for uniforms, instruments, sheet music, etc. The program would also like a drummer. No doubt one will turn...