Flying Fortresses in the Philippines and Darwin Escape
Lieut. Col. Frank Kurtz recalls the December 1941 Clark Field attack and the Swoose rescue mission. After crash landing in a rice paddy on Masbate, pilots Jack Adams and Vandevanter defend against Zeros, then evacuate to Panay and Mindanao with Filipino troops. The group later joins a Filipino Field Artillery unit and heads to Del Monte, then to Batchelor Field near Darwin Australia aboard Pease’s plane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Kurtz
Mindanao
Gibbs
Harry Schreiber
del Monte
Shorty
Pease
Lee Coats
Jack Adams
Vandevanter
Jack
Eyne
Masbate Island
Panay
Chynoweth
19Th
Australia
Bill Railling
Manila Bay
Caygayen
Davao
Old del Monte Field
General MacArthur
19Th Bombardment Group
Godman
Sharp
MacArthur
Clark
Java
Radio Tokyo
Batchelor Field
Darwin
RAAF
Royal Australian Air Force
West Texas
New Mexico
Port Darwin
Qantas Airways
Wake Island
Sinatra Rehearsal Highlights a Rising Star
Rehearsal of Frank Sinatra's CBS theater air show draws fans outside as he works professionally inside. Adolphe Menjou Greta Garbo and other stars are mentioned with project plans and radio appearances. The piece notes Sinatra's rapid rise and public ardor, with light anecdotes about colleagues and industry chatter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Sinatra
CBS
Bobby Sock Brigade
California
Voice
Jerry Lester
Sinatra
South Pacific
New York
Studio executive recalls Snow White Broadway return
Stuart Buchanan, head of the Blue Network script department, was among the first to see Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs on Broadway for a return engagement. He had already viewed it at least 1,500 times and served as dialogue director during its production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stuart Buchanan
Blue Network
Black Strand Co
W. Adams
Chicago
Odds and Ends from the Screen and Stage Corner
A carnival of brief notes recounts a carnivorous plant scene in Rain Bow Island shown with an electric gimmick. Bob Hope’s Alaska tour gift parka came from soldiers. A ex serviceman who toured Milton Berle’s program webbed two auditions as drummer and eyes a major orchestra engagement. Don Ameche’s poultry woes hit when an abandoned well collapsed into his chicken yard trapping prize hens in a twelve foot hole.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rainbow Island
Bob Hope
Alaska
Milton Berle
Don Ameche
Barbara Bell Pattern 1966 for assorted sizes
Barbara Bell pattern number 1966 designed for sizes 11 13 15 17 and 19. Size 13 with short sleeves requires 374 yards of 39 inch fabric and 34 yards contrast for collar bow and cuffs.
Collarless Two-Piecer Cardigan For Summer Wear
The piece offers a collarless cardigan with clean lines in rayon crepe or lightweight cottons. It suggests a tailored pique vestee that can interchange with a frilled jabot for dressy occasions.
Odd Jobs Census Shows Diverse Indian Trades
A census of trades in India reveals averters of hail storms pourers of water on gods sellers of grasshoppers cradle swingers and professional identifiers of witnesses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
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W.N.U
Virginia Vale
Western News
Union
Adolphe Menjou
Canada
RKO
C. S. Forester
Horatio Hornblower
Greta Garbo
Lester Cowan
Marinie
Miss Garbo
Penny Singleton
Air
Blondie
Hollywood
Columbia University
Anita Colby
America
Barton Yarborough
Doc Long
Carlton Morse
Bob Burns
Len Lye
Bob Navarro
Ireland
Great Britain
Terns Ewing
I Ie
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
St. Joseph
Kellogg’s
Kes
Fleischmann
Standard Brands, Inc
Central Annex
N. Y
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