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...suitably anticlimactic. She had the snuffles. In deference to her economizing executor (Chase National Bank), non-vintage champagne was served. For the occasion Mrs. Watriss hired two photographers-one to take official photographs, the other to stand at the door and keep out newscameramen who might try to crash the party. At 4:30 a. m. Brenda ended her rhumba dancing and sat down to chat with a tablecloth around her shoulders...
...world's present ills: ". . . The immediate fate of hundreds of millions of people hangs upon the unchecked impulses of a mere handful of men. You could pack the whole lot of them into an ordinary aeroplane. It would be a tumultuous load, but if you could contrive a crash for it the alleviation of human trouble would be disproportionately vast...
...were invading the provinces of France, "dressed in gold helmets like Roman emperors" and leaping at one another "like fighting cocks." More than 25,000 curious Parisians had watched them last fortnight in the Parc des Princes. Gendarmes were called out to handle 2,000 people who tried to crash the gate. "The giants kneeled down and tried to frighten one another with grimaces, then rushed headlong at one another. . . . Legs and arms got so mixed that the field, strewn with wounded players, looked like a battleground after the charge...
...blackness. Crazed with fear, men forgot the first rule of the rake-rider and jumped to their feet. They were decapitated by the jagged hunks of coal sticking out of the shaft roof. Halfway down the shaft the whole rig left the tracks and piled up with a crash heard at the mine mouth a mile away...
...awfullest bus accident anybody ever saw. Sixteen of the 38 children somehow got out alive. But three of them were horribly injured, one dying three days later. Driver Silcox was dead. No bus crash had ever cost so much life; the last biggest at Salem, Ill., March, 1937, took 20 lives. Utah's Public Service Commission, painfully aware of the danger that lay athwart the State's other 2,054 unprotected grade crossings, sought jurisdiction over all the State's school buses, planned to delegate to one older student in each bus the job of flagging...