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...Radioman Allan T. Simmons' Blue Swords, a Man o' War grandson who has kept closest to Count Fleet's heels (but finished four lengths behind him in the Wood Memorial last week...
They are the only white men in the town and thoroughly isolated from their kind-but none so much as the boss. Mickey is a Navy man. He was a radioman, first class, on the Lexington two years ago when someone came around recruiting for the A.V.G.s. Mickey decided he would join Chennault...
Thus Lieut. Colonel Felix Hardison, 31-year-old pilot of the Suzy-Q, won his ninth decoration. Staff Sergeant Kenneth Gradle of St. Louis, 2 2-year-old radioman on the plane that flew MacArthur out of the Philippines, received his eighth award, became the U.S.'s most decorated enlisted hero (he already wore the D.F.C. with oak leaf cluster, the silver star with two oak leaf clusters, the Purple Heart with one). Sergeant Gradle had flown on 60 missions, more than any other man in the 19th, and shot down six Zeros-more than enough to call himself...
Taxes were the reason offered by Radioman Shepard for selling. His father, John Shepard Jr., retired Boston merchant, owner of Providence's Shepard Stores, onetime (1930-35) mayor of Palm Beach, and the network's chief stockholder, is 86 and someday there will be estate taxes to pay. Rubberman O'Neil gave John Shepard III a five-year contract to continue as network operations head and board chairman...
Basye ordered the radioman to tune in San Francisco. As the ship rocked and pitched in the tremendous currents from the gorge, the first strains of Christmas carols began to penetrate the static of our tight earphones. We could make out a beautiful chorus of clear, feminine sopranos. The static cleared away briefly and a ringing male tenor took up Come, All Ye Faithful. Then there was an organ, and after that the entire chorus joined him. After that there was some news and a commentator telling how we were winning the war. We didn't listen to that...