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...Guadalcanal. In the jungle at about sundown, Private Ross looked up and beheld an advance guard of Japs approaching. "They got no more than ten yards away," he said later, "and everybody started firing and scattering." Ross got two wounded men into a shell hole and dived into a six-foot crater. Three other men joined him, one of them wounded in the knee. The prize fighter started throwing grenades...
When jovial, ruddy-faced, six-foot Donald Perell Smith suddenly quit as Vultee Aircraft general manager in 1938, airport wiseacres said his luck had run out, figured he was through with aviation for good. Yet last week Don Smith was playing his biggest role ever: president and spark plug of California's Interstate Aircraft & Engineering Corp.-a smart, fast-growing aviation concern which has produced a plane so good the whole aviation industry is buzzing...
...flank posts are also well manned. A first-rate pass-catcher, six-foot three-inch Lou Hill is generally an aggressive wingman, while Atkins seems to be a fighting offensive end who is more than adequate on the defense...
...Charlie Wilson is muscular ruddy, carries his six-foot frame like an infantry major. He likes golf, deep-sea fishing, has seldom missed a big prize fight and has taken on some pretty good men himself in gymnasium rings. But mostly he just works...
...great burst of overdue news about the desperate, last-ditch struggle to hold the Dutch East Indies, the U.S. Navy last week told the story in detail. Its narrator was six-foot, whip-lean Commander Paul Hopkins Talbot, leader of the squadron of four 1917-model destroyers that needled the convoy again & again & again, and got away without dropping a stitch...