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...tow plane started up before we were sitting down. A young lieutenant, settled on the benches running fore & aft on both sides of the glider, checking parachutes, barely got out in time. He lit running as the big 15-man glider, suddenly an amazingly skittish, lightfooted creature, lifted off the runway. To a glider novice the take-off was startling; we were airborne and climbing on the rope while the heavier tow plane was still soaring down the runway, picking up speed for its own takeoff. We climbed rapidly to 700 feet, circled to get into formation...
...result, when the Army recently disclosed that it had temporarily suspended primary glider-pilot training, some conclusion-jumpers assumed that the whole glider program was being quietly washed out. Actually, the Army had done some realistic figuring on how many transport planes it could get to tow its gliders this year, and how many airborne infantry men could be made ready to fly in them...
...There is about as much chance of the Solid South going Republican in 1944 as of Colonel McCormick's Chicago Tribune turning New Dealer. I hereby proffer and promise to swim from Key West to Cuba, and tow a loaded barge in the bargain, if so many as three states of the South go Republican next year...
Into the Chicago Sun's newsroom strode little Milburn ("Pete") Akers, managing editor, looking like an unhappy Jeff alongside the 6-ft. beanstalk of a man he had in tow. This, announced Managing Editor Akers to the Sun staff, is our new executive editor...
Besides Dr. Koussevitsky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, last Friday afternoon and Saturday evening Symphony Hall boasted of a narrator, a guest conductor, the Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Harvard Glee Club with tow soloists. The equally impressive program consisting of four works could lay claim to one world and two Boston premier performances. Yet, out of all the novelty and excitement emerged a concert which will rank with the foremost of the current season...