Bradley beam., 1944-12-09
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by T/SGT. JOHN T. McALLISTER

l MAIN Ol1ION. A1uOUS IIlS TSC6llt transfers from this station was Major Frederick J. Cole who is now associated with our Regional Headquarters. The whole detach- ment enjoyed working under Ma jor Cole during his stay here and wishes him luck in his new assign ment. It. Joseph L. Novello has reassumed his former duties as Station Health Officer with It. Jarvis H. Alger as assistant. :. Following fast furlough out in Nevada-not for divorce; he lives there. Pfc. Norman w. Hoover hit the trail last week. This further depletes the Republican bloc in the T-205 Political and Semi-Literary Club.
 BOSTON SEER: A new fore caster, It. James M. Gibbons, ar rived here last week just after re- ceiving his commission at the Weather School at Chanute Field. A native of Boston, It. Gibbons two years ago left Boston College, where he was studying accounting, to become a pre-meteorology cadet and pursued the elusive isobars at MT. before plunging into the Chanute ten-months grind. Like most budding and practicing ac- countants, he enjoys a good game of bridge but hasn't had much time for personal interests lately. Re- ports are that he did some work in long-range forecasting in school so we are urging him to prepare us a forecast for the Christmas wealth CT. After all his training we are expecting something hotter than the conventional, "Snow followed by little boys on sleds." TOURISTS: Although he admits to only one circumnavigation of the globe, our newest forecaster, S/Sgt. David V. Kennedy, has covered an unusual amount of territory in his lifetime, paradoxically slowing up a bit since he joined the weather service. His family live in Aus tralia where his father, 'cellist, is associated with the Australian Broadcasting Commission but Dave was born when they happened to be in New York. Educated for the law in the University of London, he decided he liked science better and studied physics at Sydney (Australia) Tech and chemistry at UCLA. While in California he enlisted in 1941 and naturally got into weather. A graduate of the Enlisted Forecasters School at Chanute in March 1943, he served in Houlton, Maine (California to Maine was short hop for Dave)
 and soon joined our "pioneer" forces in Newfoundland. This bat tie with the North Atlantic wealth CT ended for him when plane in which he was flying crashed into a hill last winter. Surviving by a miracle, he was hospitalized for three months and came to Bradley after a short tour at Mitchell Field. When he is not travelling or studying weather maps, Dave likes to play the piano. ~,"
 SHORT SUBJECTS: As a part ing gift to the station, It. Foster E. Murphy bought little card board house-on sale at all Liggett lDrug Stores-out of which emerges
 as from a cuckoo clock, witch
 when it is going to rain and two
 children when it is going to be fair
 The device clicks off 24-hour fore casts with uncanny accuracy and
 makes us wonder sometimes what
 price CT education. S/Sgt. Walt Steele did nothing newsworthy this week. It was a quiet week too in upper T-205 except for that nocturnal exhibition bout put on by Pfc. Jim ("Battler") Heatherly just before the alarm clock went off. .. Your correspondent had the tables turned on him this week when a couple of Beam operatives caught him at breakfast one noon