Bradley beam., 1944-10-21
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by TisGT. JOHN T. McALLIsTER

TIME OUI: What FaCkeI. What vacation. What a break for you readers. But now all immedl- ately willing guest columnists have been used us, so yours truly must go back to work again. Thanks to all who helped out and come again. STAND-IN: After working with him a couple of months, the boys are just beginning to realize that Pfc. Vernon R. Hanson, last weeks colnmnist, is dead ringer for the late, great Alan Hale of movie fame. Out of a long string of lun- bering, jovial characterizations we remember Hale best Gold time fans correct us if we're wrong) as the Little John to Doug Fairbanks Robin Hood and as Porthos to his d'Artagnan. Vern would do a good job with either of these roles if he could keep from laughing at the wrong moment. Just to keep the interest up, we will offer absolute ly free one of our special seven day forecasts to anyone finding a resemblance between any other member Of the weather squadron and any star of stage, screen, ra- dio, or television (eXcluding Donald Duck). And to widen the field of choice, we'll throw in the AACS section.
 CELEBRATION: The bluish haze of cigar smoke in the Weath- CT Office last week did not indicate political discussions going on. It was just It. Porter passing out the stogies again. We had hardly swept up the ashes from the cele- bration of his promotion to First Lieutenant when he came around to announce the birth of a baby daughter.
 TRAVEL NOTES: Pfc. William l.. Schmalgemeier leaves us this week on a furlough preparatory to vacation trip somewhere at gov ernment expense. A card from Hank Lenzycki and Frank Bianchi now at Ashville, N. C., says noth- ing about their military duties, if any, but pictures a lavish golf course so the boys are probably relatively happy. Pfc. Thurmon T. Lee is leaving us this week but not because he doesn't like it here and vice versa.
 WIND REPORT: Florida was beginning to have hurricane trou- ble aod Cuba had had plenty as we went to press. But this time it looked as though the storm would follow the normal path and curve toward the northeast out to sea. In 1926 when severe hurricane crossed southern Florida more than hundred people were drowned because they overlooked the sim pie fact that there is a back side as. well as front side to circle. You can visualize hurricane as disk of air about AS miles high and 1O0-3O0 miles in diameter with the whole disk whirling counter clockwise at 100 miles per hour around center zone of about ten miles diameter where the air is relatively calm. The whirling disk of air itself moves slowly-from five to twenty-five miles per hour usually. When the front side of the 1926 hurricane passed over Miami there were monstrous waves and high winds with rain. Then as the center reached the city, the rain and wind ceased. People came out to survey the damage and went to the beach to see the waves; some even attempted surf bathing. In about an hour the center had pass ed and the back of the hurricane swept over the city with raging winds from the opposite direction. The waves reached mountainous heights and swamped the onlookers and bathers who had no chance to escape.
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