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Then he got his first break: assignment as communications clerk in one of four Liberator squadrons in Brigadier General Ted Timberlake's group, now famed as "Ted's Flying Circus" (TIME, Oct. 18). Ben kept his fingers crossed, never even went to nearby Shreveport for fear of getting into trouble. Twice when the squad ron moved (to Florida, then England) they talked of leaving him behind. Both times he begged to go, made...
Rarely has a man's hobby so helped his profession. For a while, Jimmie warbled on "Hello, World" Henderson's Shreveport station KWKH. His political opponents seethed: "You can't fight Davis-how in the devil can you fight a song?" In a recent election for public service commissioner in the Third District of Louisiana, Davis beat Huey Long's record (for the same office) by polling over 57,000 votes-20,000 more than both his opponents combined...
Robert Kenneth Chennault, 18-year-old youngest son of the Fourteenth Air Force's Commander, reported for induction in Shreveport. The armed forces now have all six Chennault boys...
Keystone Kops. In Shreveport, La., officers of the law finally got straightened out after a complicated chase. Two patrolmen in a private car chased a speeder; a State trooper in a private car chased the patrolmen; two more patrolmen chased the State trooper. The leader of the parade was fined...
Case Adjourned. In a Shreveport, La. courtroom a hearing was quickly postponed when a witness wearing a head bandage was asked what his trouble was. His trouble: mumps...