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Numbed Bodies. A full 35 minutes after the accident, passengers huddled atop the embankments heard an ominous sound. Up the northbound track, at a full 90 m.p.h., roared the Tamiami East Coast Champion, heading straight into the derailed cars. There was a sickening screech, a clattering crash; then stillness and, finally, the small cries of the hurt and dying...
...East Coast Champion's engineer, who survived the crash, had seen no warning signal...
...being sandbagged as a precautionary measure against the free-for-all (at two bits per each) scheduled at the Faculty Club tomorrow night for the remaining veterans of the June invasion of McKinlock Hall. It threatens to outstrip the time when a couple of scabs tried to crash the Long-shoremen's Ball at the old Masonic Temple...
...officer's pinks and forest-green shirt he wore the most dazzling decorations (the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Purple Heart). He had lived through the most spine-tingling experiences imaginable, on all possible battlefronts (strafing Nazi tanks in North Africa, being rescued by the French underground after a crash landing in occupied Europe, shooting it out with Jap Zeros over the South Pacific). When red-haired young Holdeman spoke at war-bond rallies in Booneville, Tupelo, Okolona and a dozen other towns, women sobbed openly and strong men rose en masse to subscribe the limit. He was the best...
Died. J. William Ditter, 55, Republican National Congressional Committee Chairman since 1939, able party strategist. Pennsylvania Representative (the 17th District) since 1933; in the crash of a naval plane; near Columbia...