Word: texan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Promotions and Dispersions. Last week the 19th Group got its orders. A few would remain at Pyote as the nucleus of a new 19th under command of Major Elbert ("Butch") Helton, 27-year-old Texan who led one of its old squadrons for a year. At least a record dozen pilots of the 19th would get commands of other groups stationed from Kansas to California...
...Scarface eight years before, decided to collaborate in producing a Ben Hecht script-biography of Billy the Kid. For the chief roles Hughes insisted on new faces, specified the girl must be "primarily sexy." The Hughes lightning struck Californian Jane Russell, 19, a dentist's receptionist. Also struck: Texan Jack Beutel, 21, a studio hanger-on (Hughes changed his name to Buetel...
...uninhibited, involved comedy directed in the Preston Sturges manner by playful Elliott Nugent, the film casts Paulette as a shapely Texan who loses a beauty contest and somehow becomes a crystal gazer. This puts her in a practically perfect position to confuse her rival (Virginia) and convince her quarry (Ray) that his destiny wears red hair. These shenanigans occasionally achieve a quality of amiable screwiness...
...Training. Early last March General Arnold tossed the problem of setting up such a system into the lap of a staff assistant, Colonel Byron E. Gates, promising his complete backing if there were squawks from traditionalists whose toes got stepped on. With the help of a statistics-minded young Texan, Lieut. Colonel Charles Thornton, he set to work. By mid-April the program had been set up, arrangements made with Harvard Business School to train cadets...
Feats of the 19th furnish the best evidence to a country suddenly thrown into war that Americans have not lost courage. Captain Hewitt T. ("Shorty") Wheless' 75-mile battle with 18 Jap Zeros was the subject of a Presidential broadcast. Wheless' fellow Texan, Captain Alvin John Henry Mueller, also a winner of the D.S.C., brought his B-17 back with 1,400 bullet holes...