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...inch during his 36 years in office. No man to miss such an item, the Daily Express's famed "Beachcomber" observed: "St. Paul's Cathedral is bitten by the fashionable bug of perpetual fidgeting, and is unable to remain still any longer. . . . It is due to crash into the Daily Express building in February 236,481 A.D. unless the Daily Express, feeling itself pursued, takes to its heels and crawls up the Strand...
...Captain Eddie Rickenbacker, to help auction off four pairs of Nylons, a Persian lamb coat, a bat autographed by Babe Ruth. They were some of the sideline booty (besides $105.000) which a sympathetic U.S. public has showered on Pfc. James Wilson, who lost both hands & feet in a plane crash. Private Wilson wanted to sell off his presents to give the proceeds to a hospital pal - a triple amputee...
Among those missing: ex-Congress President Subhas Chandra Bose, 48, Cambridge-educated leader of Japan's proposed puppet government for India. Last week, he was reported killed in an airplane crash in Formosa...
...Field Marshal Sir Bernard Law Montgomery had a bruised hand and ankle and a chipped vertebra after his plane crash-landed into a tree near Oldenburg, Germany...
...radar, supplemented by a map of the terrain, would keep a pilot as well oriented as if he were flying over his living-room rug, would ward off collisions with mountains and other planes. It would, of course, prevent such accidents as the Army bomber's crash into the Empire State Building last month...