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Show who's News This Week By Delos Wheeler Lovelace Consolidated Features.-WNU Release. NEW YORK.-The sooty ends of the mustache of Brig. Gen. Frank O'D Hunter sweep skyward. They seem to swagger as they An ' sweep. And HeNeedn'tWatch on the gen-Younger gen-Younger Airmen To Learn Tricks He seems t0 swagger, too. His middle has thickened thick-ened and his best profile has two chins, but even without a plume, a cape and doublet and hose, he looks as swashbuckling a fighter as aU the 18th century could churn up. Outwardly, that is. Actually, the general, on his record, is tough, direct di-rect and silent, no fire-eater at all. His prediction from London that our attacks will finish the Luftwaffe along about 1943 is substantial talk. The general is not one of the youngest American brigadiers, but he is young enough, 48, and his Eighth American Fighter command, very likely will follow fol-low him toward Germany off the airfields of England more often that it will leave him behind. He downed eight German planes in the First World war and can wear a DSC with four oak leaves, a Purple Heart and a Croix de Guerre with pains. The oak leaves and palms indicate repeat performances. perform-ances. In the following peace he set cross-country records, crashed twice, and became an authority on precision flying, which comes in bandy now. But he won't talk about bis past and that is why he is a swaggerer only to the limit of that mustache. A long parade of reporters agree that he is a mum cuss. Invited once to say a few thousand well-chosen well-chosen words on why he remained in the army, he answered: "I guess it's because I like the life," and went back to his tip-to-tip nights. WRANGLES Over the efficiency of American bombers have lately been a little muffled by the roar of American motors high over German Think What Gen. cities where Andrews Would some critics r i'i. a swore our Do With Pegasus . craft could not go except at too great cost. Shortly they should be quieted for keeps. The new American Amer-ican commander of all forces in Britain is a flier too old to be fooled and his proposal to intensify bombing bomb-ing of the Nazis points to a showdown. show-down. Lieut. Gen. Frank M. Andrews started from West Point in 1906 as a man on horseback. But in the last World war he quit the cavalry for a cockpit. Since then he has held increasingly important impor-tant air commands. In his own amphibian he hung up .three world records, so the water hazards should bother little when he orders an invasion across the English channel. He is an expert on blind flying, too, and English fogs or cloudy French skies ought not to trouble , him, either. The general was quite a spell getting get-ting to a colonelcy over the army's peacetime promotion hump. He made it in 1935. Since then, however, how-ever, he would have done well to carry an extra star at ull times. Promotions piled in that fast. He comes to his command from the Middle East where he earned a Distinguished Service Cross. He has a couple of Nic-araguan Nic-araguan decorations, too, and if he wishes may also sport the medal of a commander of the Italian Order of the Crown. If he wishes'. ' VfME. WELLINGTON KOO, x whose father called her Hui Lan, which means Meteor-Heavenly Orchid, seems too fragile to turn f , , the spotlight More a Meteor aU by her. Than Orchid on self on Pres- U.S. Aid to China ident Eoose-, Eoose-, ... velt's lease- lend aid to China. But she does, and makes the allowance look much too much like a pea without any of its three shells. Unlike the three Soong sisters whom she admires, Mme. Koo works alone. Maybe this is why she throws aside finesse. Our help .s "pitiful" to a China on the verge of collapse, she says. usSedCLPlain Wrds have rarely b(n used by a more decorative speaker her 40th year the wife of toe ain nT ambassadr to Great Brit ain, now visiting in this country still inspires photographers ad dip matic assemblies. wn ! Street' in a Fifth Avenue SrS?- its,f an old M-chuTos: either side onw 6 10166 on - MmeKooouVrir ioTarendTUha"dS-deep ioTarendTUha"dS-deep red of her fuU n, M' the iewelryinvariaVisj taft:1:dVSamo--Her it is reporw L? a" mother who made hPerieCt6d b a ynd criticsm to r. dauSter be- bandWishCfrforaCOsTnSateahUS- |