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When an airliner crashes, the airlines and manufacturers scramble to find out what happened and why, but they seldom accuse each other in public of laxity. They prefer to sweep the accident under the rug and out of sight. Last week Croil Hunter, boss of Northwest Airlines, took another course. His airline sued the Glenn L. Martin Co. for $725,000, charging that five Martin 2023 which it had bought in 1947-48 were defective. The wing of one of them, said Northwest, "tore off in flight," during a storm, killing 36 passengers and crewmen near Winona, Minn., last...
...Philadelphia's Judge Curtis Bok, himself an author (Backbone of the Herring), ruled thoughtfully that nine novels (including works by James T. Farrell, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner) seized in vice-squad raids were not obscene. Said the court: "I should prefer that my own three daughters meet the facts of life and the literature of the world in my library than behind a neighbor's barn, for I can face the adversary there directly...
...when Deutsch heard that a man who supplied dogs to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine had been arrested for cruelty to animals, he decided that Hearst's campaign was "no longer just a nuisance. It was a real problem to medical research." Wrote Deutsch: "The medical scientists prefer to experiment on animals . . . The anti-vivisectionists apparently prefer human babies to dogs as experimental objects." In California, Dr. Prinzmetal continued his animal experiments, and his visits to anti-vivisection's high priest...
...Formers," proclaimed the Daily Express, "ar welcum to Docter Folics nu Inglish. WE PREFER IT AS IT IS." But the Evening Standard felt constrained to point out that "spelling reform is supported by many of the leading intelligence of the country." One of these, of course, was G. B. Shaw, who long ago had pointed out that under the present system the word "fish" might just as well be spelled GHOTI; GH as in enough, O as in women, TI as in nation. GH-O-TI = fish...
Zanier hats were also ready for market last week. Brooklyn's American Merrilei Corp. (which also makes Hawaiian leis and paper party hats) brought out a pith helmet containing a tiny, concealed radio set with a single earphone. But the Buck Rogers buffs might prefer a football type helmet, which the American Junior Aircraft Co. of Portland, Ore. displayed at the 46th annual American Toy Fair. It carried a tone transmitter (see cut) which controls the steering of a glider airplane by sonic vibrations. A steady sound tone makes it fly straight, interruptions turn it alternately right and left...