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...evening his khaki staff car, marked with the four red stars, rolled across the sleeping countryside. At busy, nervous dromes the General chatted with the air soldiers. He looked for a paratrooper from Kansas. He joked with one youngster about his haircut. He asked a boy who had been a Dakota farmer how much wheat he had grown per acre...
Private James O'Banner, a mild-mannered, youngster from Memphis, Tenn., was the first man to get a Nip. His carbine snap shot stirred up a hornet's nest. A dozen Negroes were slain, 25 were wounded. But 30 Japanese were dead before the melee was over...
Hero Youree was sentenced to be cashiered as an example to youngster airmen who are tempted to reckless flying. He was convicted at his station at the Ardmore, Okla. Army airfield of flying too close to a Braniff airliner and scaring the daylights out of its 21 passengers...
...drab, grey brick P.S. 119 took their children into the school yard for recess. One teacher played the piano while five little circles of Negro girls danced gaily. But nine-year-old Margaret Patton had a skin rash and sat alone on a bench. She was a well-behaved youngster - so well-behaved that she sometimes tattled to the teachers about other girls...
...Pittsburgh only one physicist outspokenly opposed Ehrenhaft. Dr. Jacob E. Goldman, 23-year-old Westinghouse magnetism researcher, rose to remark that he had repeated Ehrenhaft's experiments, found only bubbles, no magnetic current. His results suited another youngster, 27-year-old James T. Kendall of England's Metropolitan-Vickers laboratory. Dr. Kendall declared in Nature that Ehrenhaft's claims "may turn out to be no more valid than his previous claims of the existence of charges smaller than the electron...