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That evening the annual dinner will be held with addresses by President Conant, Nathan Pereless, Jr., President of the Associated Harvard Clubs, and Archbald MacLeish, Curator of the Nieman Collection. Presiding will be Frans Blom, President of the Harvard Club of Louisiana...
...Secretary of War married, every newspaper in the land would burgeon with accounts and pictures of his bride, her life, romance, wardrobe, nuptials. Last week Germany's Minister of War, grim-lipped Nazi Werner von Blom-berg-59, a widower for five years and father of five children-took a second wife, but for 24 hours the regimented German press was not able to learn even the bride's name. Finally the honeymooners were found, strolling through the zoo in Leipzig, the bride's name revealed: Erika Gruhn, 28-year-old daughter of a Hanover carpenter...
...vice president of the Grace Lines, with his pretty wife. The weather was not bad: at Bakersfield the ceiling was 3,500 ft., at Burbank 3,000 ft. The peaks on both sides of the course were garlanded with scattered clouds. Delayed slightly, Pilot Edwin W. ("Soapy") Blom, a veteran of 18 years' flying, radioed Burbank that he would arrive at 7:37, seven minutes late...
...Blom's voice came crisply through the ether asking Burbank for a radio bearing. The Burbank operator was puzzled to note that Pilot Blom was using a daytime radio frequency. He asked the plane's position. Pilot Blom replied: "Wait a minute." The operator waited. But he heard no voice through his earphones, no drone of motors in the sky. In a few minutes frantic United launched a search, but not until next morning did a flyer spot the tragedy from...
...small Tehachapi Mountains, which link the Coastal ranges to the main Sierra Nevada. Between the Tehachapis and the fertile San Fernando Valley, where lies Burbank, is a knot of rugged, tawny, 3,500-ft. ridges littered with olive-green scrub oaks. Into one of these ridges Pilot Blom had plowed at full speed. For 1,000 yd. the big plane sheared the trees, losing both wings and finally bashing to a stop in a deep ravine. Everyone was killed instantly. Soapy Blom saw the crash coming, for the ignition was turned off, preventing fire. Broken watches indicated that the crash...