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...damage on the crash in Wellesley was extensive, though the driver was not hurt. He swerved from the road to avoid another car, which in turn was skidding to a stop as a third car backed out of an icy driveway...
...wave gathered its water and broke upon the warm dry sand, and is now returning to the narrow crease between sea and sky. A new wave is beginning to gather. In time, that will crash and recede, making way for another. That is the life and the power...
...last stronghold of the Harvard of 1942 will remain, to all appearances unchanged. Yes, externally the same, the Lampoon Building will still exist, heedless of the swirling currents of humanity that pass and crash at its corner. But inside its three walls things will be different, for after having served the functional purpose of an airraid shelter during the War, the Lampoon will have been turned over to the Boston Elevated Railway as a subway station...
They had gone into action at the drop of the Jap's hat in Pearl Harbor. By now Hein ter Poorten was a lieutenant general. He had been Commander of the N.E.I. Army since October, when General Berenschot was killed in an airplane crash. His planes ranged far out to sea, attacked and sank Japanese ships. They worked closely with the N.E.I. Navy, which was at sea. The Navy commander, Vice Admiral C. E. L. Helfrich, a shorter, stubbier, seagoing edition of Ter Poorten, had sent the fleet out days before...
Died. Cinemactress Carole Lombard, 32; in a plane crash near Las Vegas, Nev. A high-strung, energetic blonde with a charmer's face and a talent for comedy, she had been a cinemactress since childhood. Born Jane Peters in Fort Wayne, Ind., she moved to Los Angeles at seven, made her cinedebut at eleven. She went into Mack Sennett comedies after an auto crash scarred her face, a few years later began appearing in romantic roles, emerged in recent years as an outstanding comedienne (My Man Godfrey, Nothing Sacred, Mr. and Mrs. Smith). Married to William Powell...