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...D.F.C.s and Air Medals from World War II. But for four years everybody in VF-781 had been too busy flying in the present to bother polishing up the past. One weekend every month 36 Naval Reserve pilots would converge on the Los Alamitos (Calif.) Naval Air Station and thunder off on maneuvers in their stubby Grumman Hellcat fighters-unanimously elated to escape from the humdrum chores of selling insurance, studying law or changing diapers. Their bashful, blond skipper, Lieut. Commander Collin Oveland, 32, was a weekday Mercury salesman who had dared them into the Navy's sassiest, .busiest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: First in War . . . | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

After the Thunder. Cornwall-bred Williams got his first experience with outsize animals when he served with the British Camel Corps in World War I. After the war he went to Burma and graduated to elephants. Elephant Bill is the modest, rambling story of what he learned about the beasts during the next 25 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jumbo in Burma | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

...sweltering hot evening in late May ... he hears a mighty storm raging ten miles away in the hills and knows the rains have broken." A wall of brown, log-choked water bears down on him. "He staggers and falls, but the groan he gives is drowned by peals of thunder," and his carcass is smashed to bits as the flood hurtles it along. The reason elephant remains are seldom found: porcupines gnaw away the tusks to get at the nerve pulp, other scavengers destroy whatever else remains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Jumbo in Burma | 7/31/1950 | See Source »

...Lawless (Paramount) is not only a good movie but, considering its makers, it is also as unexpected as a slum documentary by Cecil B. DeMille. Produced by William H. Pine and William C. Thomas (the "Dollar Bills"), longtime Hollywood specialists in low-budgeted blood & thunder hokum (Captain China, El Paso), it is an honest, unpretentious picture about racial prejudice and mob violence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jul. 3, 1950 | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...blonde wife Kirsten danced a rousing performance of Napoli. By the time the festival closed this week, a silken-smooth performance of Concerto (based on Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto in A Minor) had moved the Danes to break an old Royal Ballet tradition. To a thunder of bravos, the full company lined up to take one of its rare curtain calls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: A Nod from the King | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

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