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Sergeant Louis ("Soup") Silva finally got his Distinguished Flying Cross last week, and everybody in the U.S. Army Air Force in Australia was pleased. Soup is a 47-year-old gunner from California, who has been in the Air Force since 1928. Many are the tales of his shooting, his handling of the green young gunners in his care, the respect in which mere officers hold...
...recent combat, an untried youngster missed one Jap Zero after another. "Look, Joe," said Sergeant Silva, "you're not leading them enough, and your shots are going behind them." Silva grabbed the gun and squinted from the Flying Fortress turret. Four Zeros flashed by. Three of them, perhaps the fourth fell apart under Silva's fire. "See, Joe?" Silva yelled. During the same fracas, the pilot inquired over the Fortress interphone: "Are you firing at the enemy?" Sergeant Silva replied: "Sir, I've already shot down two, goddamit...
...TIME fumbled its pictures. The one printed with the Dec. 2 story was a photograph of Dr. Francisco Luiz da Silva Campos, Minister of Interior and Justice of Brazil. Herewith, a photograph of the real Jimmy Marshall...
...audience liked better the slinky, tuneful, banal choros and dances which were played by gourd-rattling Romeo Silva and his orchestra, familiar to many a visitor to the New York World's Fair. It liked better still a tall, dark soprano, Elsie Houston, who in a green dress looked and sounded like some jungle bird...
...Lisbon well before sailing time with three cairn terriers and a Sealyham, 52 pieces of luggage, a portable sewing machine, golf clubs, four wicker crates of old Madeira and port wines, and a 1940 limousine and trailer. "Mr. Windsor" tarried ashore with Portuguese Banker Espirito Santo (Holy Spirit) Silva, who had been host to the Duke & Duchess. The Excalibur waited, and on the pier waited the British Ambassador to Portugal and Lady Selby, the British Minister Sir Noel Charles. Royal Maxim No. 1 is "Punctuality is the politeness of kings," but Windsor was a solid 40 minutes late, rolled...