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Captain Ned Weld, fresh from a fine victory over M.I.T.'s Raul Karman, will again be at first singles, with Bob Bowditch, Tim Galwey, Fred Vinton, Jorge Lemann, and Bill Wood completing the singles alignment. Jim Cameron, Laurie Pratt, Pete Smith, and Scott Custer will play additional matches not included in the official scoring...
...match and then bounced back to win, 5-7, 6-2, 6-2. Barnaby rested his second and third doubles teams of Gallwey-Vinton and Lemann-Wood. Laurie Pratt and Jim Cameron, playing number two, came through to beat Winicour and Kennefich, 7-9, 6-1, 6-3, and Scott Custer and Langden Smith, playing third, wrapped up the shutout by taking Hodges and Dave Aker...
Claire Chennault died last year of cancer, Lieut. General U.S.A.F. (ret.). Before that, says this biographer, his persistent ailment had for years been nothing more deadly than a heavy heart. Author Robert Lee Scott Jr. ought to know. He flew in China with Chennault's legendary Flying Tigers, then commanded Chennault's fighter forces in what must have been one of the most gallant and frustrating wars ever fought. Flying Tiger an angry book, is almost as important for what it tells of its villains as it is for the love it accords to its hero. Yet, ironically...
Stilwell had an infantryman's myopia when it came to the real uses of airpower (he even walked out of Burma after his defeat, though Pilot Scott had flown in to rescue him), and Marshall could be relied on to back Stilwell in any disagreement with Chennault. Moreover, as Author Scott only suggests, Stilwell bitterly disliked Chennault's friend, Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek. The overriding issue of Chinese Communism is all but unmentioned in Scott's book, although the Marshall and Stilwell blindness to the Communists' real purpose lay at bottom of their inability...
Much of Chennault's sad and brilliant saga has already been set down by others, some of it by Author Scott himself in God Is My Co-Pilot (TIME, Aug. 9, 1943). But Scott's present accounts of battles in the China air, of maddening service red tape and of Chennault's leadership have the ring of truth, loyalty and experience. Generals in higher places treating Chennault as they did may have had reasons Fighter Scott never knew about. What he shows in Flying Tiger is an advantage few of them enjoyed: the knowledge that comes only...