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Easily the top man on the bill was our man Bell, current A-Section Leader. Bell, a New York attorney, demonstrated a mastery of the ad lib racket with a couple of take-offs. Other feature performers included the inimitable Witt, "Orson" Wells, "Red" Pace, Overson, Briggs, Baker, Barker, Bridgeman, and Gress on the blew-harp...
Chicago's gift to Boston, Charley Wilson, is currently languishing in Sick Bay as a flu victim. . .Things we miss: Vice-Ensign Witt's daily dash to report at morning colors. . .Serious note: Sounds like a real break this station is getting in cinema attractions . . .pre-release showings of top pictures in the Music Building at microscopic prices. . .Company Dog will get their look-in Sunday evenings. . .good deal, there...
...across the Atlantic in 1919) will head the Technical Training Command. Heavy, greying Elliott Buckmaster (who skippered the carrier Yorktown to her last hours at Midway) will run the Primary Air Training Command. Stocky Alfred Montgomery probably will get the Intermediate Air Training Command. To unnamed jobs went De Witt ("Duke") Ramsey, Arthur Davis, Charles Mason and Frank Wagner (who commanded Patwing Ten in early Pacific battles...
Tall, breezy Carl Wakefield, San Francisco adman, sat down fuming and circularized Vice Admiral John Greenslade, Lieut. General John L. De Witt and Coast Guard Commander Roderick Patch: "Fifty-thousand Japanese parachutists could have landed on San Pablo Bay on that night, and a clear night it was, without detection...
...Wakefield's circular Admiral Greenslade replied that 50,000 Japs could not have landed because the Navy has "detecting devices" to pick up plane motors. He offered no good answer why nobody detected Wakefield's frantic signals. Silent General De Witt was more interested. He silently sent a major around to find...