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...later urged him to give up flying: "I don't want to be one of those generals who die in bed." His nervy, bad-weather flights did more than give him a reputation for courage; they pioneered a flight technique which every military pilot must master today. A tireless long-distance pilot, Andy Andrews several U.S. and world records (including three once held by Charles A. Lindbergh...
Spark plug of this achievement was Universal's pudgy, tireless Works Manager William A. Ruhl (who used to make Nash automobiles). When Universal contracted to manufacture Johnson parts last year, Bill Ruhl lacked tools and materials, had no priority status whatsoever to help get them. By airplane, train, telephone he ransacked the already overburdened machine-tool market, just as many another tool-hungry competitor was doing...
Sued for Divorce. Edgar Rice Burroughs, 65, tireless biographer of Tarzan; by Florence Gilbert Dearholt Burroughs, 36, his second wife; in Los Angeles...
Little Segura's lusty swings are deceptive: a shot that seems to start as a forehand drive sometimes floats over the net for a drop shot. A passionate enthusiast, twinkletoed and tireless, he yells Ay! (Alas) when he gets excited. Waiting for a serve, he jumps up & down with impatient impatience. He is fun to watch, and by last week Ecuador's idol was fast becoming the latest darling of U.S. tennis fans...
...poet, a critic, a tireless student of short fiction who never wrote a short story himself, O'Brien died in February, aged 50, at his home in Buckinghamshire, England. Thus The Best Short Stories, 1941 is his last anthology. The series will continue under the editorship of Martha Foley, co-editor (with Husband Whit Burnett) of Story, which was long a favorite hunting ground of O'Brien's for new writers and new ideas of short story technique...