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...airmen caught a glimpse of the Jap flashing by, saw the swatch of American flags painted on his engine cowling. There was no time to watch the fight but they saw the end. Ed Cragg's plane went down smoking, crashed into...
...Okla. (pop.: 15,143) Paul Hughes, 26, was a young man to keep an eye on. He worked his way through teachers' college, later got a job with Ada's radio station KADA. He wanted to write, collected the young writer's usual swatch of rejection slips. He knocked around in minor radio jobs in Colorado Springs and Oklahoma City, married an Oklahoma girl named Marjorie Higbie. At last he got the night editor's desk on the Ada News...
...great druggist died last week. A swatch of black crepe hung over the picture of little, round-faced Dr. J. Leon Lascoff in the Manhattan drugstore he founded in 1899. He was the dean of the old-fashioned U.S. pharmacists - the proud little group to whom a soda fountain and its attendant Comus' crew are anathema...
...early, cleared desks, sat down before the hour to wait for the first appearance of the new Old Man. He came in on the dot, slim, stern and businesslike. His staffers caught the gimlet look in his grey eyes, the rudimentary mustache masking a stubborn lip, the swatch of bright ribbons on his chest, the well-tailored uniform, the Corps of Engineers buttons* on the blouse...
...hair is grey, but at 69 George Humble is all set to ship out. Retired from the Navy 20 years ago as chief carpenter's mate, he broke out his old uniform again last week, prepared to work towards another hash mark to add to the swatch of eight that adorn his sleeve already (they represent 32 years' service). Sailor Humble began his career as a blacksmith's apprentice in Ireland, joined the U.S. Navy in 1890, the year he landed in the U.S. He began to hate the Japs back in 1901, when some Jap cops...