Word: texan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Commanding the four Shooting Stars, Major Evans G. Stephens, a Texan, and his wingman, Lieut. Russell Brown of Pasadena, Calif., saw two Communist jets pull out of a dive 50 miles south of the Yalu and turn toward the river at the Americans' altitude, closing fast. Said Stephens afterwards, "Brown and I were between the enemy jets and the river. I called to the rest of my flight to come on up-we have two of them cornered...
Regarding your Sept. 11 article on Bob Prescott and his Flying Tiger Line, wherein you state he painted one of his C-47s like a totem pole and flew a "fanciful" Texan and eight friends to Vancouver, B.C. for a weekend...
...meet the fanciful ideas of a Texan who wanted to fly a group of friends to Vancouver for a weekend, Bob Prescott painted one of his planes like a totem pole, wore a cowpuncher's outfit while piloting...
Flashes & Drawls. "When you listen to one of the New England boys with his drawl, bargain with a Texan with his drawl," said the head of Boston's Scouts, "you know that . . . these boys are getting a picture of the nation they couldn't get any other...
Clad in a gold-colored silk sari, Dr. Sushila Nayar, disciple and personal physician to the late Mohandas K. Gandhi, carried the Mahatma's gospel all the way to Dallas: "If every Texan would adopt a policy of nonviolence, there would be no new problems...