NEVADA: Apple Duck's Travail

He was always perturbing somebody. During the war it was U.S. brass hats and the Japanese Empire indifferently, though in different ways. But carefree Marine Ace Gregory ("Pappy") Boyington never caused himself any perturbations. Two months ago he gave himself a new chance to feel qualms by becoming violently enamored of a blond ex-movie actress named Mrs. Frances Baker. This might well have disturbed a lesser man—for until he met Frances, he had been under the impression that he was about to marry a Mrs. Lucy Malcolmson. But Pappy resigned himself happily...

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