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Last week, after a six-month study of 31 jet aces and 62 of their less successful contemporaries, the Air Force's Psychologist E. Paul Torrance shed some light on the top MIG killers. The jet ace's outstanding characteristics: aggressiveness, self-confidence, an almost fanatic devotion to flying. The typical ace was born into a large family, had to cooperate and vie for parental attention with his brothers & sisters, was seldom coddled. As a youngster he played hookey from school or drove cars just to see if it could be done, strove to win at such rough...
...proposed six-month draft is only one of several suggestions under consideration for the new reserve program--not a definite plan--Admiral J. P. Womble, Director of the Defense Department's Personnel Policy Division, said yesterday...
Just Pals. In Wellington, New Zealand, ex-Warder John Hall of Witako Prison got a six-month sentence after police found that he had given three prisoners five nights of liberty in one month, even lent one prisoner his bicycle to visit a girl friend...
Burrell has also done work for the British Broadcasting Company at various times during and since the war. He is presently in this country for a six-month visit...
...commission, headed by State Senator George J. Evans, chairman of the legislature's Education Commission, included a number of prominent, local doctors, among them David Harwitz, clinical assistant in medicine at the Medical School. The group also consulted with several area educators during its six-month study of the medical school problem...