BASED ON HOPE LATE ENTERTAINER LEAVES MARK.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Staff Writer EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE Edwards Air Force Base, U.S. military installation, 301,000 acres (121,805 hectares), S Calif., NE of Lancaster; est. 1933. It is one of the largest air force bases in the United States and has the world's longest runway. - Bob Hope is gone, but a reminder remains - his signature, left on a wall that in the 1940s and '50s had been in a basement recreation room in the base commander's house. Hope and his troupe visited Edwards - then named Muroc Army Air Field - at least twice during World War II, drawing big crowds to the base gymnasium gymnasium In Germany, a state-maintained secondary school that prepares pupils for higher academic education. This type of nine-year school originated in Strasbourg in 1537. and later the new base theater, Edwards historian Raymond Puffer puffer, common name for some tropical marine fish of the family Tetraodontidae. The puffers and their allies, the boxfish, the porcupinefish, and the ocean sunfish or headfish, form an odd group (order Tetraodontiformes). said Monday. ``Needless to say, he always played to enormous crowds while he was here, making jokes about sandstorms, very low humidity, and heat,'' Puffer said. During one of his visits, either during the war or perhaps shortly after, Hope signed the recreation room wall, which also bears the signatures of famous pilots like Chuck Yeager  This page is currently protected from editing until disputes have been resolved. and Jimmy Doolittle. Years ago, someone had the signatures painted over and covered by a partition A reserved part of disk or memory that is set aside for some purpose. On a PC, new hard disks must be partitioned before they can be formatted for the operating system, and the Fdisk utility is used for this task. . For decades they were hidden, until a major went looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. the wall, led by old photographs. Now, the signature wall is in the process of restoration. Edwards' present commander, Maj. Gen. Doug Pearson, saw Hope perform in the mid-1970s in Europe and was impressed with the show. ``He put service before self, and continued to do things important to the military long after he had to. He was obviously top of his league, certainly excellent in all that he did, and lived life with integrity,'' Pearson said of the entertainer, who died Sunday at 100. ``Our community will miss him.'' Even military personnel who never saw a Hope show have fond memories of him. Lt. Col. Kerry Humphrey, Edwards' public affairs Those public information, command information, and community relations activities directed toward both the external and internal publics with interest in the Department of Defense. Also called PA. See also command information; community relations; public information. director, as a young second lieutenant in about 1986 had invited Hope to visit her base in Greenland. Hope, who was already in his 80s then, wrote back that his schedule didn't permit him to travel so far, adding that he'd performed at the base before, Humphrey said. ``He took the time to write me a personal note, which I'll treasure,'' Humphrey said. ``The fact that he wrote a note and had been there before, it was pretty amazing a·maze v. a·mazed, a·maz·ing, a·maz·es v.tr. 1. To affect with great wonder; astonish. See Synonyms at surprise. 2. Obsolete To bewilder; perplex. v.intr. .'' Humphrey added: ``Even people who may not have seen him perform, they know what he's done for the troops.'' Charles F. Bostwick, (661) 267-5742 Chuck.Bostwick(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Bob Hope visits with service personnel in the base theater before a show at the former Muroc Army Air Field. |
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