Word: stripped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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LeMay loved flying (has since logged 7,000 hours), but he was no comic-strip fly boy. While his classmates swooped off for weekends in Los Angeles, he often hung back to take engines apart, work at machine guns, pore over weather charts and navigation logarithms. Result: after seven years in fighters, he was called from Hawaii to fly the first of the Army's Flying Fortresses because he was the rare Army airman who could find his way around with a navigator's sextant and chart. From then on his career was set as a big-plane...
...LeMay's B-50s, Lucky Lady II, flew 94 hours and 23,452 miles nonstop around the world from Carswell Air Force Base, Texas. It refueled from B-29 tankers over the Azores, Dhahran (Saudi Arabia), Manila and Hawaii. *An Ohio State classmate: Milton Caniff, creator of comic-strip Airmen Terry, Flip Cor-kin, Steve Canyon. -A bad sinus condition years ago paralyzed some of LeMay's facial muscles, making smiling difficult and exaggerating his reputation for ferocity. He has long used a pipe or a cigar to anchor these muscles...
...answer. Then Lou said simply: "I'm hit." The captain thought Lou was just talking about his plane; later, he realized that Lou had meant that he himself had been wounded, probably mortally. The captain suggested that Lou try to make it back to a U.S. emergency landing strip a few miles away...
Fradd reassures timid members of '54 that if they have any personal or religious reasons for not wanting to strip for the camera, they may pose in their undergarments...
Such specialized patter will probably give no trouble at all to admirers of Comic-Strip Hero Buck Rogers and his legion of spaceship-flying, planet-exploring imitators. But to those who have never exposed themselves to the comic strips, the pseudo-scientific gobbledygook that spews forth from every page of Lancelot Biggs: Spaceman may cause some confusion for a while...