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...well within Earth's gravitational pull and far from Europe, his fuel line broke and he pancaked into the Atlantic about 175 miles southeast of Boston. A trawler fished him dripping from the sea, seconds after the monoplane sank. Oil-stained, tattered, handcuffed but merry as a tumbling bug, Cheston Lee Eshleman returned to Camden under police escort, was tossed into jail. He faced 1) a prison term for larceny, 2) a $4,000 fine for violating at least four Civil Aeronautics Authority rules. His sole profit: by-line story in Mr. Hearst's New York Journal...
Next day came the military display. While 265 planes zoomed overhead, Herr Hitler obligingly showed his princely guests how lucky it is to be Germany's friend. He underlined his point with a two-and-one-half-hour military review, made princely eyes bug out with three new 25-ton tanks, mounting one 75-mm. gun, one 37-mm. gun, three machine guns. Carped critics: three-quarters of the parade was motorized but only 20% of the German Army is. Observers thought Prince Paul was less likely to quibble about percentages...
...regain the championship for his alma mater, Harvard's Irving Clark Jr. four days later polished off 24, sucking at an orange after each one. He also offered to eat a bug for a nickel, an angleworm for a dime and a beetle for a quarter...
...Washington to discuss trade, money, Dictators and armaments was Brazil's Foreign Minister, Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, onetime (1934-38) Ambassador to the U. S. Secretary Hull had a bug, too, but omnipresent Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles took good care of Dr. Aranha. The Navy's impending war game emphasized Brazil's importance in a war involving "hemisphere defense" (see p. 12), and Dr. Aranha stated that in any "international civil war," Brazil would be on the U. S. side, "Absolutely!" His major contribution to U. S. news columns was that the "old" Germans in Brazil...
...mounting importance of Joe Strecker as a Reddish bug under the national microscope was further emphasized when, to defend him before the Supreme Court, up rose Lawyer Whitney North Seymour of the eminent Manhattan firm of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett. Mr. Seymour, a Republican libertarian, won freedom in 1937 for Red Angelo Herndon from Georgia's 71-year-old insurrection law. For Joe Strecker he argued that his case paralleled Herndon's, and that in view of the Communist Party's disclaimers, its members constitute no immediate menace such as the 1918-20 deportation law had in mind...