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...game that slowed down often, wingman Rip Lynch, back from a long illness, knocked over Bruin skaters with his fast, scrappy playing. He also shot in one of the four pucks...
Next term the schedule will present really severe competition. But the key players will be back form Stillman. Captain Dusty Burke, whose broken collar bone is mending, will put on his uniform in a few weeks, while wingman Lynch has already been cleared by the Hygiene Department...
Paced by left wingman Fred Koch, the freshmen had no trouble stopping the inexperienced Phillipians, but neither squad showed brilliant hockey form...
Quoting your review of the movie Fighter Squadron [TIME, Dec. 6]: "When O'Brien parachutes from a crippled plane, his wingman brashly lands in enemy territory to rescue him. This threadbare sort of hokum is fairly hard to take...
Major Pierce W. McKennon, one of the great aces of the war, was rescued from a German wheatfield in just this manner by his wingman Lieut. George Green . . . Lieut. Green even went so far as to strafe and kill the German soldiers who were attempting to capture McKennon before he landed, picked him up and flew out with McKennon sitting on his lap, having thrown away his parachute in order to make room in the cockpit...