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...somehow he had got too low. The left wing of the DC-3 brushed a high maple tree. There was a blinding blue flash as the ship ripped through a high-tension line, a deafening crash, silence. Then a woman began...
Flight 6's crash was the fourth fatal airline accident (the fifth to wreck an airliner) since President Roosevelt reorganized the independent Civil Aeronautics Authority last summer, made it a dependency of the Department of Commerce and abolished the old Air Safety Board. At that time U. S. airlines had flown 15 months without a fatal crash. This week, as Pilot Scott was buried, fellow airmen recalled their warning, given to the President by the airlines and the Air Line Pilots' Association, and echoed by Senator Pat McCarran, author of the old CAA law: that to keelhaul...
...edition of The Great Gatsby, was dead too. At the home of Nathanael West and his wife, Eileen McKenney, Fitzgerald attended his last party (and his first in many a day) on Friday, Dec. 13. Day after Fitzgerald died, Novelist West and Eileen McKenney were killed in an auto crash (four days before the play based on Ruth McKenney's My Sister Eileen became a Broadway...
...syphilitic prostitutes, instead of being locked up in institutions, were being taken to the edge of town and turned loose. When the mayor challenged the charge, the police commissioners backed up Dr. Birkhead in public. The mayor, infuriated, brought his fist down on the table with a crash, exploded "By God!" and fell dead. Since then Dr. Birkhead has had to go easier on his opponents. But last week, claiming that there were 15 to 20 million pro-Nazis in the U. S., and not enough people "howling" for democracy, the good doctor got ready to do some lusty howling...
...Lieut. Hanson and Ensign Clark. Again, the plane belted into a storm, got within 40 miles of San Diego and safety. A work man on the ground thought that he saw flame in the sky; a rancher heard the transport's engines, flying low, then heard a distant crash. When searchers reached the top of Mother Grundy Peak, they found the smashed ship, eleven bodies, nobody alive to tell just what had happened. Airmen knew that for the four from the PBY, the last hell and thrill of flight in storm must have been about the same...