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Died. Arthur Blaikie Purvis, 51, head of the British Purchasing Commission in the U.S.; in an air transport crash...
...slow roll in 1931, woke up with both legs amputated, one at the thigh, one at the knee. He fitted himself with a pair of four-pound, duralumin, flexible-jointed legs designed by the brothers Desoutter, one of whom also lost a limb in an air crash. Douglas Bader learned to fox trot, play cricket, turn a backward somersault, finally had one leg shortened for further agility...
Last month Ace Buckley came home, only to have his flying career make a crash landing in a Toronto police court. Skeptical Canadian authorities had checked up on Buckley's record, found that he was a plain aircraftsman who had been washed out of a pilot-training course in England, then deserted. Fortnight ago, police nabbed him swanking about Toronto in a flyer's uniform with a D.F.C. ribbon...
Died. Bruno Mussolini, 23; in a bomber crash near Pisa...
Died. Natalio Botana, 53, publisher of Buenos Aires' evening Critica; of auto-crash injuries; in Jujuy, Argentina. He built Critica from an obscure sheet to one of South America's biggest...