Word: twins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tail-wagging. The debate appeared to be over whether the tail should be allowed to wag the dog. Tweedy, twangy Elmer Davis once headed a twin-sized domestic & foreign organization. Now the Overseas Branch, headed by Robert Emmet Sherwood, 47, the lank three-time Pulitzer Playwright, has about 97% of all OWI employes. The overseas budget is $34 million; the domestic is $2½ million. As a friend and speech-doctor to Franklin Roosevelt, Sherwood has easy entry to the White House. Davis, presumably the nation's No. 1 news dispenser, is not even close. All the U.S. remembers...
Prikryly Pair. At Biggs Field, Tex., the clerking staff was repeatedly nettled by twin brothers, both sergeants, both named C. D. Prikryl, both aerial engineers reclassified as airplane mechanics...
Flying long-range protection for the bombers, Howard's flight had attacked enemy fighters, and after the first encounter he found himself alone and near a forward box of Fortresses just coming under heavy attack by twin-and single-engine German fighters...
Over the Messerschmitt plant at Brunswick last week, the Flying Fortress Frenesi squared away for her second run at the target. Then the fighters came, twin-engine jobs that slammed rockets into the formation, snub-nosed 190s that whirled through the Fortresses with their guns spitting like alley cats...
When one identical twin gets heart trouble, the other usually has it or soon gets it. But not so in the case of G.G. and R.G. Of these medically anonymous twins, G.G. is known to his friends as "SpeedUp George," R.G. is known as "Lead in the Pants." In the process of living up to his twin brother, who is huskier and a little smarter, G.G. has become a highly sociable live wire, a Mason, a Woodman. He has also achieved a blood pressure of 180 (normal blood pressure: around 140), and has had a ngina pectoris for the last...