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Doolittle Shuns | Active Flying

_51-Year-Old Aviator | Blames Bad Eyesight r

By Earl Wilson GALVESTON, Ter. Apr. 21 — Gen. Jimmie Doolittle

‘has quit piloting planes.

. The Old Man, said one of his close friends, “dec ided he wasn't keeping his hand in enough, so bang—he quit.” To me that came as a shock. 1 figured that Jimmie— first man to fly a land plane over 300 miles an hour, first to fly across the U. 8S. in less mre than 24 hours—would go on Earl’s: Pearls - } until 90. -

. Joey Adams took some pub- | I cornered him das he bounced

licity stills in Hollywood, and

; next day :around in a blue sports ship with started. work | the shirttail out at his Fokyo! in. a. movie. { raiders’ convention. The movie

“Yes, I've quit as an active pilot,” said .the peppery, solid; sometimes spectacled Jimmie, who has a Ph. D. from MIT and can! talk- like a professor, “hecause of

was finished | in two weeks— one day sooner than the stills. Throw-

the increased complexity of fly- Mr. Adams ing out the ing, coupled with my own reduced first ball of the season, says vision and approaching Senility, Phil Wasserman, is the first How about these boys © . sucéessful piteh Triiian has yours?" I asked.

made In Wa I lookéd around at these heroes ashington this year,

y ombed Japan's home islands who bombed p ? vention: A saloon editor wasn't just seven years ago.

off his beat

Yay “Could they fly actively if we | have war tomorrow?” 1 said. “Certainly” said Jimmie.

“They're better fliers and_more mature now. And none except myself have reached the area of incipient, approaching or already rarrived-at-old-age:

{ » " u Loved by His Guys FOR ALL HIS CLAIMS of | penility, Jimmie's about 51 and is loved by his guys as well as re- | spected for his brains.

After the war, as Shell Oil Co. Gen. Doolittle

vice pres. in charge of aviation, They'd come here to Texas’ he piloted a B-25 and scared hell playground. Jimmie addressed out of control tower folks by risk-

They ing" soupy ; weather and mushing Many into airports, But Jimmie assumed deepbowed executive duties, his B-25

“Hi, gang.” ! were rugged-looking guys. still Air Force fliers. They had a conventional con-|

{* And _ so, a little impatient,

{till 11,

was now slower than commercial passenger planes, and, he said: “I wasn’t able to fiy

effi

[ clently any more without giv- |

| ing it more time than I had. “To {ly the airlines you have to give all your time to it. 1 quit, because I had too many’ friends whe died trying to beat that game.” perhaps, he rides as a passenger now

But sometimes he busts out and

{speaks his piece about the ‘ridiculous” waste of having both air force and naval aviation. n ”

Big Ambition

JIMMIE KIDS himself a lot. He likes telling about a Chicago kid ‘autograph fan who got his sig nature. Then said—-"Who is. the old B anyhow?” When a foreign government want to fly him from New York to Washington to give him a decoration with much hurrahing, he groaned: “Why can’t they mail it up? Jimmie's got a story about the days when he was a colonel, Dressing down a rookie for lack! of ambition, he said, “don’t you | {know if you want ta be a general, you have to get up at 5 and work| seven days a week, 365 {days a year? = “I don’t- want to be a general,” | the rookie said, “1 only Want to! he a colonel’ ” " . Lisp Trouble FRAN WARREN claims Francis told some friends {hat stories about her lis Pp were greatly exaggerated, “But I'll admit,” Kay is supposed to have

said, “that one certain consonant gives me , , , well , .. trouble!” Over at - Freenian

premiere he attended that was so dull when the curtain came down the author ran out on the stage

and yelled, “AUDIENCE, AUDIENCE!" That's Earl, | Brother, y

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