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April 15, 19415
By Walt Disney
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What GEN Is?
R.A.F. phrases have already passed into the language-
o.g. Ha for, a· Heinkel; You for a` Junkers; Mo for a Messerschmitt.
There are others, too. they are used.
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And strange stories in which
By Guy Ramsey
Hair Force blue, aat
“ALF-A-DOZEN lads, all
about the table, They were all smoking. Only one of them was drinking—and he was indulging in one glass of sherry.
The group ranged in age from 28 -a veteran, "product of the Civil Air Guard, now just finishing his training-to 18. None of them had been commissioned. On only one breast--that of the veteran- gleamed the silver. wings of achievement. None of them had been engaged in opera- tions against the enemy.
One of them-ràshly-told an ancedate in which the teller figured to advantage. In- stantly the five others broke into a chant:
"There was 1.
feet up
Thirty thousand
Upside down. . Hanging on my
straps. What did I do?"
That chorus, rhythmic and de- risive, has become ritual. It is hurled at anyone giving utterance. to anything that may remotely be construed as swank or boasting.
Hearing them talk, quite apart from technicalities of aircraft, quite apart even from the rigmarole of initiels which the Junior Service
uses lo fantastic lengths, one came upon totally strange words,
"Duft gen," for example, with the gin gen pronounced like a j This phrase. has a brother, pukka gen.
The Gens, Duff and Pukka, are rumours. The etymology of gen is uncertain; it is believed it is a con- trnction (the RAF. is mad on contractions) for genlus, .
Genius is gen. A man who has the very latest rumour is a gen for picking up news, so the news he picks up Is gen. Duff gen is unreliable rumour; pukka gen- considerably rarer-is well-found- ed rumour.
STRANGE stories these trainees
have to tell.
The man with the wings, for example, was on a training flight and lost himself: an easy thing to do if you are not yet highly trained. He made a forced landing and im- mediately tried to discover where he was in order to report to his station.
In the gathering gloom he found
a local yokel, and the following,
conversation, ensued.
"Where is this?"
The answer was an unrecognis- able hamlet pronounced with
heavy Yorkshire accent.
"Ah Thanks. Can you point it out on this map?"
"Nay. Can't read. · scholard."
I'm
non:
Hm. Well, am I near Brud- ford?"
"Nay
:"Lecis?"
"Oh, nay." "Sheffield?"
"Oh, mny." "Hull?"!
"Oh, nay.
"In desperation. - "How far from Hull?"..
"Must be all of eight mile!"
As Timothy · Shy would say, "Collapse of stout, party, accus- tbred to thinking of hundreds of miles as a "dip.
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was, and ascend again. As It is a rule that a plot, dropping at on airfield, must report, and that re- port goes back to his station, he would drop swiftly, bawl his question, shout his thanks, and try. to get away before the officer to whom he should report could be summoned.
That worked quite well, but on one occasion he came down at an airfield, bawled out: "Where am I?" received the answer, "Quicke- on-the-Uptake" (blame the Cen-
tor sorship
this
place-name), yelled "thanks” and was away.
Ten minutes later he descended at what he thought was the next aerodromic on his route. Again he came down, screaming almost be- fore his machine had taxied to a halt: "Where am I?"
He received the bitter answer "Still Quieke-on-the-Uptakel"
NOTHER eidet had a tright one
night. He had been flying single-seater fighters, and for the first time took up a-bomber at night. He was "pushing his crate" along quite happily when, to his horror, he saw the riding light of arather aeroplane just over to his right...
He flung the machine to the left, convinced he was going to collide. A shiver ran up his back: the other man had turned the same way.
Again he changed course, zoom- Ing. Still he could not shake off this unwanted and unexpected
neighbour.
It was not until several hair- raising moments later that he realised it was his own riding light so for "out" on the huge machine that he, accustomed to the tiny fighters, was convinced it was another plane.
nerves,
Finally, there was the story of the young trainee up on his first- night solo flight in an unarmed machine. He was petrified with As he was cruising about a plane hurtled past him in the darkness,
nearly brushing his wing-tip. It was only when it had passed he recognised it as on Mc.110.
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That is a story he does
not uften. Even though it was blind luck he was not shot down, he does not want to hear that chorus of hearty derision chanted at him,
POCKET CARTOON
"Careful of the plaster,
now !!"
Why People Swear
Speaking at Gloucester As- sizes recently, Mr Justice Hawke said he thought people often used bad language be- cause they had a paucity of vocabulary and wished to gain time to form their thoughts..
He was giving judgment in a libel action in which a man alleged that two other men had published a leaflet falsely accusing him of using bad language.
Mr. Justice Hawke said the leaflet was justified and that the language said to have been
used by the man making the claim for damages was highly objectionable.
Shipping Losses Only Three Percent
What Britain needs in 1941 is not large armies from overseas-It is weepons, ships and airplanes.
Sir. Arthur Salter, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Ship- made this statement in an in- ning lerview with U.S. newspaper.corres- pondents.
Despite the fact that since the Germans seized the French ports our shipping losses average 90,000 tons n week, we still have more than.07 |per cent," of the total seagoing ton- nage under the British flog in 1930, he said.
Toasted Cheese
by WILLIAM HICKEY
ĮVARLY one recent morning
off
Fleet St, was burned out.
It was burned out in the first Great Fire of Londori (1666), In the second Great Fire, on December 29 last, it escaped with a slight top- storey singeing... Bad luck to have come safely through... bombing and then succumb to an ordinary fire (or, in a way, good luck, since insurance payment is probably fuller & prompter than Government compensation)
FT, may be some months before the Choose ani reopen. The damage is mostly on the ground floor. Most of the "relics," which Americans used to handle sa res verently, are safe, the chair in which, no doubt, Dr Johnson was assured that Shakespeare had zat, flergens KITTE
the visitors-bookE, PAR
THEN there was the story of the cadet who had no gift for maps reading.
Flow like an angel but couldn't find His way to London, you showed him the Thame
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in
man's Holiday" ("Tum-titum- *Litum-iitumty. ...TUM TUM"). Upstairs, salvage men found one of the two cats, dond.
To the und "the Cheese, journa lists were among the loent curical- tics that made up Its atmosphere. Journalists, feeling that it was their pub, wore slightly relieved when winter came and they had elbow-
summer tourists who used
room to drink old ale (10d a half- pint, the strongest here-abouts) and ent'a cut off an excellent joint (personally, I didn't eate so xjuch For
Pudding)
High-backed box pews about the tables, churchwarden pipes, saw dust-strewn floors, electric lighting that looked #ilkusegase all were evidence of the careful archalum with which the "olde" character of the place had been emphasised in was the notice recent years, So
furs above the doorstopt(even the f row worn in it protected by iron bars)*Customers are requested to mind the atop, which is part of the antiquity Kithe House „Zand' shows LED
centuries.
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