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...training repair crew specialists in 60 days v. two years for old-line, all-round aviation mechanics. Only drawback: the 1942 model mechanic knows, for example, only the radio, or the ignition system, or cylinder work, or wing repair. To help out, the Army plans to pull 50,000 tinker-minded soldiers out of U.S. camps by Oct. 15, ship them off to airline-operated schools. Most airline executives were tickled silly at a chance to show their stuff on the new program, unveiled a few recent achievements to prove they could do almost anything. Sample feats...
Wyler is neither cocky nor objectionably conceited, but he vigorously maintains that "the best picture or star in the world is not worth a tinker's damn without good direction." His pictures speak for him: These Three, Dodsworth, Dead End, Jezebel, Wuthering Heights, The Letter, The Little Foxes, etc. They have not spoken loudly enough, however, to win him an Academy Oscar for direction, despite the fact that few directors can match his picture-by-picture output...
...last day, the Army had one of its few important losses. East of Wake Island, a Flying Fortress went down at sea. With it went one of the Army Air Force's best commanders, 54-year-old Major General Clarence L. Tinker. With his yellow gloves, swagger stick and Osage Indian blood (one-eighth), General Tinker was a famed Air Force character. He could well remember the time, not very long ago, when the sea was reserved for warships and a few naval planes, and Army bombers were encouraged to keep away from the Navy's pond...
Missing in Action. Major General Clarence L. Tinker, 54, commander of the Army Air Force in Hawaii; somewhere beyond Midway...
Married. Joseph B. ("Tinker to Evers to Chance") Tinker, 61, member of baseball's famed double-play combination in the early 1900s; and Susanna Margaret Chabot, 40; he for the fourth time, she for the second; in Orlando...