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...Navy, which has declined to give them the kind of a job they crave. They think that when landings are made by Marine divisions, Marine flyers should be called upon to support them. Instead the Navy has reserved that job for Navy flyers, tossing the monotonous and unspectacular job of providing air defense afterward to the Marine...
...millions of Americans felt that they knew slim, tall (5 ft., 11 in.) Donel O'Brien, 20, a fresh, handsome kid with wavy blond hair and a quick, Irish grin. For twelve years, Howard Vincent O'Brien had been offering Daily News readers a pleasant column of unspectacular introspection called All Things Considered. The morning he said good-by to Donel, Columnist O'Brien caught the public where its heart is. His "So Long, Son" column stuck. Readers' Digest reprinted it. So did a score of lesser magazines, newspapers, house organs. Throughout the U.S., the farewell...
Once again, Puddler Jim Davis' long and unspectacular career in office had been saved by merciful intervention. After serving through three Republican Presidents as Secretary of Labor, he was off the public payroll only 33 minutes in 1930 −long enough to be sworn in as Senator. In 1932 he was re-elected two years before the New Deal tide really began to run in Pennsylvania. In 1938 he came back when the New Deal tide was ebbing and his Democratic opposition was split. Each time he won without the support of the State G.O.P. machine. Each time Pennsylvania...
...Wars. Jumbo began his army career at 18, when he joined the Rifle Brigade and went out to fight the Boers. He ended that campaign a lieutenant, with two medals, and decided to stay in the army. His rise .was gradual and unspectacular until after World War I, in which he won the D.S.O. and promotion to lieutenant colonel. Later he lectured at Sandhurst and the Staff College. Several times it seemed that he might be hurting his career by sticking to infantry commands, but a real break came in 1934, when he took over the Aldershot Brigade, first fully...
...Benchley together with some other promising ingredients, then collapses into equal parts of mild pleasure and disappointment. Most cinemusicals are so large, loud and splendid that seeing one is like trying to eat a wedding cake singlehanded. The Sky's the Limit is rather short (89 minutes), rather unspectacular (there are no chorus numbers), rather quiet (three suave tunes...