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...North Africa. Charged with trading with the enemy, he faced a maximum penalty of ten years' imprisonment and a $10,000 fine. Unofficially it was said he had tried to buy up the North African orange crop for the Nazis. Bedaux's record would indicate that his zest for chasing dollars had involved him more deeply...
Whether Jimmy Doolittle's zest and aptitude for personal leadership will carry him through the biggest job of his life, with all the complexities of command in the unusually complex Mediterranean theater, is still a question. But it is not a big question in the minds of airmen who have known him since he was a fledgling. Said one of them last week: "Time just went by, and he improved with time, that...
...Personally," said Edgar Bergen, "I never thought entertainment so damn important, but I changed my mind after we toured the Army posts in Alaska." Like Al Jolson before him, he declared the boys up there had taken the zest out of him for entertaining civilians. Last week they were backed up by Bob Hope, the hardest-traveling Army-camp trooper of them all. The Aleutian circuit, he declared, comprised the greatest audience in the world. Back home, both Bergen and Hope were geysers of zestful anecdote in proof of their claim...
...triumphant comeback P.G. can thank his amazing aviation know-how, his endless vitality, his ability to inspire trust -to say nothing of the fact that none of the airmail charges was ever proved. P.G. started in aviation in 1917, when he landed a job in the old Boeing factory. Zest, bright ideas and an all-round knowledge of machines made him president in 1926. To get a bigger market for his airplanes, Johnson set up United Aircraft & Transport in 1928, soon whipped it into the biggest U.S. aviation combine. Then came the infamous airmail investigation which cost...
...Frank Luther, asked Painter Benton to record some of the music played at his get-togethers. The result: Saturday Night at Tom Benton's-music as tangy and close to the soil as Tom Benton's paintings. Father and son blow their way with true amateur zest (and professional assistance from strings and voices) through three homely folk tunes: Cindy, Old Joe Clark and the fine, mournful Wayfaring Stranger. On three more sides they romp through two simple, diverting pieces (Gay Head Dance, Chilmark Suite) written for them by Edward Robinson, who accompanies on the harpsichord...