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...Leftists launched counteroffensives of some consequence, and the one against Rightist positions in Huesca was still battering away last week. Anarchists at last had a Spanish war legend worthy of the highest traditions of Anarchism. They insist that the death of Rightist General Emilio Mola in an airplane crash as his forces advanced upon Bilbao (TIME, June 14) was "really no accident," but due to the fact that Mola's pilot was secretly an anarchist, suicidally wrecked the plane to kill Mola. Finally there was fierce, sporadic fighting on all sectors around Madrid but the month closed with...
When Mrs. Faye Larrison of Caldwell, Ohio was tending her garden, she said, she pulled up a weed encircled by a gold ring. Looking inside she saw the name Zachary Lansdowne. Thus, twelve years after the crash of the U. S. dirigible Shenandoah, was found the Annapolis class ring of its dead commander. The Navy Department and Commander Lansdowne's friend J. Edgar Hoover had been trying to find the ring since 1925, get it back to his widow, who has since remarried...
...charge of the A.P. strike desk sits Lewis Andrew (''Andy") Brophy, dapper six-footer, day supervisor in the New York office, who made a name for himself by a two-hour beat on the Shenandoah dirigible crash. He got a broken ankle when his car turned over returning from the wreck. A.P. rewarded him with, among other things, a cane capped with inscribed metal from the dirigible...
...whose marital indecisions had been making headlines. When the plane never arrived, WAE launched a search which continued spasmodically until last week with the lure of a $1,000 reward. Fortnight ago a searcher on Lone Peak found some letters. Last week four men reached the scene of the crash almost simultaneously, agreed to share...
...Harvard education is readily answerable. But it is doubtful whether the questionnaire is, or the article. In the first place, there is little indication on the query that one wishes most to hear about. What happened to these fortunate men who graduated and settled down just before the Crash? In the second place, when any group of men in their early thirties stand up and say they came to college for "mediocre reasons," lived "mediocre, mildly pleasant lives," and got "mediocre jobs," that group may indeed have the right to be mediocre, but it has no business thus inferring that...