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You get— HE went into the United States Army and it was this that gave the boy a new reason for living. As a member of the Air Corps he settled down to work. Oh, it took some time to get going, but slowly, surely, he found his stride. At the end of his training he graduated high in his class as a glider pilot with a flight officer’s rating. This was success won the hard way and it must have made him feel pretty good. You heard of him now and then after that — nothing spectacular, just casual news of a young American who was doing his job. He wouldn’t call it important, that news on the wire the other day, but just the same it looked good. The flight officer had set down his glider far back of the Japanese lines in Burma — his the first American Air Commando ship to land Allied troops. It was dark in the jungle that night and the flight officer lit flares along the runway to help other pilots come down . . . Just did his job, but it made good reading in Hollywood. ' It made wonderful reading. And Hollywood who had forsaken him once, now saluted Flight Officer Jack Coogan, “The Kid” that was — “The Kid” who had grown into a man. It was funny . . . The Los Angeles newspaper that carried his picture on the front page above the story about his glider and its exploits, carried, too, the picture of the once great comedian who had “discovered” him. And reading about the two of them, you were proud of only one. Yes, you were proud of Flight Officer Jackie Coogan out there in Burma. With a warm, good feeling in your heart you said, “The Kid has come into his i!” ir Invest in Amerita — Buy War Bands and Stamps it But of Charles Chaplin, battling his way through Los Angeles courts on various charges involving paternity and a girl, if you were kind, you said nothing at all. The End