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...Seventeen year olds who will have finished their current college term by June 25 or who will have gained a high school diploma by that time are eligible as candidates and may appear before the Naval Aviation Cadet Selection Board at First Naval District headquarters, located at 150 Causeway Street in Boston...
Beatrice Lillie, at the piano, sings I'm Just Seventeen and I've Never Been and, in asthmatic duet with Mr. Brook, Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes. She delivers the perfect Lillie line, "You will find the dinghy by the jetty." But the essence of On Approval's charm is not in such familiar bravura; it is in the muted perfection of Miss Lillie's general performance, and in the excellence of the supporting players. It is in the way Clive Brook handles his stick and gloves, or invites himself downstairs for a drink...
...Seventeen had serious dust injury to their eyes, one man died of dust in his respiratory tract, three others were made very ill by it. In addition, at operations for other injuries, "the anesthetist remarked time & time again on the dirt in the pharynx and trachea [throat and windpipe]. Standing out in my memory are two in which the inside of the trachea was quite black and dry with dust. . . . An air-raid warden . . . told me that several of the dead found by his rescue party had been suffocated by dust-the mouth, nose and throat being completely blocked...
...state (Nov. 6) that the Navy has a total of seventeen (17) four-star admirals. At present I can think of only seven: King, Leahy, Nimitz, Halsey, Ingersoll, Stark and Spruance. Is it I, or your researcher, who is in error...
Rough-&-ready Lieut. General Lewis Hyde Brereton had fidgeted for weeks waiting for the moment to arrive. Seventeen times since his small-scale assists on D-day he had drawn up the detail of tactics for a historic stroke: the parachuting of an Allied army, a force of truly army size, capable of fighting on its own, behind the German lines. Seventeen times he had scrapped the plans: the Allied ground forces had advanced so swiftly that his First Allied Airborne Army was not needed...