Word: younger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...went in with the first transport outfit to reach Sicily. . . . After the briefing some of the younger pilots had perspiration on their upper lips...
Likable, leathery "Slutsie" McCain is a good officer; in the Bureau of Aeronautics he has done a good job of supervising pilot training and the design and delivery of planes. He has listened to the argument of younger officers that unfettered air attack can blast the Jap out of the sea. Sometimes he has taken their advice. But airmen point out that McCain was 51 and 30 years a Navy man before he won his wings, and that he has held air commands only since 1936. Not even the appointment as new Chief of BuAer of Rear Admiral DeWitt...
...full-fleshed, dark, mobile face set off with a small, grey mustache, horn-rimmed glasses and insufficient salt & pepper hair. He likes his fun and has it, drinks a wide variety of liquors, from national raki to good Scotch whiskey, but is more moderate now than in his younger days. He is still spry in friendly company, often takes to the dance floor to perform the Sarizeybek, a finger-snapping, foot-stomping Izmir mountain dance learned in his native village...
...that his acting is neither here nor there. Fats Waller & Band, richly aided, tonsils and all, by Singer Ada Brown produce a blues in a Beale Street joint which, if it inevitably falls short of absolute genuineness, is a fine restoration by Grade-A archeologists. The dancing Nicholas Brothers, younger and more agile by some decades than the great Robinson, stage a volcanic family eruption...
Born. To British Army Captain Jan Christiaan Smuts II, 31, younger son of South Africa's Prime Minister, peace time mining engineer, and Daphne Webster Smuts, 29: a son, their first child, the Prime Minister's 13th grandchild, first to bear his name; in Johannesburg, South Africa...