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Claire Chennault, wartime skipper of the Flying Tigers, back home with his Chinese bride and three-month-old daughter for a rest and a couple of congressional hearings on China, took a fighter's view of the whole situation: "I have seen it a lot worse for us in China and the Pacific than even it is now, and I have seen us turn it around and win . . . There are millions and millions of Chinese who don't like Communism and will fight...
...Somerville, 66, British naval hero brought out of retirement by Winston Churchill for service in World War II; of coronary thrombosis; in Wells, England. Torpedo Expert Somerville was deputy commander of British naval units in the historic evacuation of Dunkirk, led the British fleet into action at Oran, was skipper of famed Force H which helped keep the Mediterranean open for shipping...
Individual score for the Harvard team were: Pete Putnam 38, Dick Braisted 38, Frank Scully 36, Charles McElroy 34, and Paddy Foster 25, George O'Day '42, former Crimson star skipper, was high man for the day, totaling 40 points for the Marblehead team...
...92nd Street), might have been a real humdinger in the same tradition. Unfortunately, it rarely gets much nearer to a real whale than a few tons of refrigerated blubber and some background footage of Pacific whales lazing about off the coast of Southern California. To offset this handicap, canny Skipper Hathaway has concentrated on character study, backed by careful casting and straightforward camera work...
Born. To Major General Claire Lee Chennault (ret), 58, hawk-faced ex-skipper of the Flying Tigers and the Fourteenth Air Force who now runs a Chinese commercial airline, and Anna Chan Chennault, 25, former Shanghai newspaperwoman: their first child (he had eight others by a previous marriage), a daughter; in Canton. Name: Claire Anna. Weight...