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...lives for the time being in a tent in the jungle with a neat little sand path running to the tents of the other fliers. His only amusements are bull sessions and an occasional hike to the tiny plantation store miles away. But he's fit as a fiddle-and all Navy. He wanted to know about everything at the office, who's writing what, how's everybody...
Actually he was on his way, at the moment, to the Navy's new training station at Idaho's beautiful Lake Pend d'Oreille. There, in the midst of pine forests where bear and deer roam wild, he examined the bright new barracks and the tent city of 20,000 construction workers...
Lindsay has been in the theater since he played Polly of the Circus as a youngster. His upsy-downsy youth included being head man in a tent show, acting in Shakespeare and burlesque. In the early '20s he turned director (Dulcy, To the Ladies); in the early '30s he clicked as an author with She Loves Me Not. In between he married petite, blonde Actress Dorothy Stickney (Mother in Life With Father...
...amazement, your Aug. 24 issue says: "The Navy traced little Ned, found he had dreamed it all up." Never has such an accusation been more ill-founded. I have taken the trouble to obtain definite proof of the accuracy of my son's letter, including, specifically, the camouflaged tent, the hidden short-wave transmitter and the bayonet. Furthermore, despite the retraction currently attributed to the Navy, I quote in full the Navy's letter to him, written on the spot, at the time...
...With the best of intentions, TIME erred twice: 1) in overcrediting Ned Collins, 2) in too readily believing accredited military sources, who told TIME they had checked the boy, and had found he had dreamed it all up. The facts are: Neddie, aged 12, did discover a makeshift tent and radio equipment, which he reported to the Coast Guard. Enthusiastic friends added the Nazi, the communication with submarines and general fancy work. To Ned Collins, TIME gives all due credit for an act worthy of any young citizen...