Word: youngsters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...qualities of leadership had been developing since he was a youngster, the first of six children of the Rev. David Owen Ghormley, Presbyterian minister of Portland, Ore. When Bob Ghormley was ten, the family moved to Moscow, Idaho, and it was from there he entered the Academy...
...Midland, Tex. he watched a youngster who had trudged in only a week before go 4,000 feet aloft in a twin-engine bombardier-trainer plane, drop a stick of bombs smack in the center of a 100-ft. circle. He saw San Antonio's student navigators, riding on motor-drawn platforms above a classroom map, work out problems they would face in the air. At Harlingen, Tex. he watched blindfolded enlisted men take machine guns apart and put them together again by touch, as they must in the gloom of a tail turret on a night-bombing mission...
...Edward Rhetts, 32, is a lanky Indiana youngster who went to Washington from Harvard law school, is now executive assistant to WPB's Bill Batt. Ed Rhetts has never yet made the headlines-but if Russian soldiers knew his name, they would give him prayerful thanks every day. His job is to get WPB's Lend-Lease aid on to Russia-bound ships; Russians who come to the U.S. to get non-military help such as locomotives and machine tools knock first on Harry Hopkins' door, then wind up talking to Rhetts. He wangles the goods...
...practitioner of the gentle art of elimination is a handsome, green-eyed youngster named Alan Ladd, billed as The Raven. A hired killer, he likes his work, and is not above saying so. Having polished off a blackmailer and his moll before breakfast he returns the stolen poison-gas formula to the chemical-company executive (Laird Cregar) who paid him to get it that way, and submits to one question: "How do you feel when you are doing a job like this?" Says The Raven, without batting an eye: "I feel fine." Before The Raven finally meets his maker...
...CASE OF THE DROWNING DUCK- Erle Stanley Gardner-Morrow ($2). Perry Mason, hired to investigate an 18-year-old California murder mystery, saves a likable youngster from the results of his hocus-pocus with detergents, runs a crook to earth, and solves two contemporary poisonings. Enough plot and action for two novels...