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...Ceiling Zero, Dizzy Davis, presented as the daredevil-great lover of the aeronautical world, goes back to work for Federal Air Lines at Newark, where he disrupts a pure romance between a hostess and the chief pilot, is partly responsible for a friend's fatal crash and at last goes out to die heroically in a fog over the Alleghenies. All this is accompanied by a buzz of ribaldry and shop talk (a program glossary explains that "cotton," "dirt," "gloom," "goo" and "bird-walking weather" all mean fog) from an assorted crew of mechanics, Government inspectors, plane manufacturers, insurance...
...steel-splintering crash, almost beneath his window, brought Rev. Charles R. O'Hara bounding from his bed. By the time he reached the window, the express, Washington-bound from St. Louis, had ground past with the rear half of the Williamsport school bus still clinging to the engine cowcatcher. Father O'Hara and another priest, his house guest, hurried into the rain. On the front lawn a girl lay unconscious. Two students were impaled on the cowcatcher, others strewn for 200 yards along the track. Bent on saving what Catholic souls might be among them, the two priests...
...Carrie Howland, spinster sister-in-law of the Gibson Girl, trying to hold on to the place while her reckless brother dabbles in painting and ill-advised speculation. Then Mrs. Joseph Kelly gets "Tall Trees" out of profits from chewing gum, settles there with a corrupt political boss. The Crash gives the estate to the Howlands' onetime gardener, who has bettered himself financially by bootlegging. The last women seen at "Tall Trees," now a roadhouse, are the gardener's earthy wife and a tipsy society woman who shows up on the opening night...
...crash caught Matt with his pants down. Soon there was no work for aristocrats of labor. Puzzled, angry, discouraged, Matt had a final quarrel with his wife, a bust-up with the local of his union, and took to the road again. This time it was not so much fun as when he was younger. He wandered all over the country, taking any job he could get, bumming most of the time, gradually completing his education. Once, with another desperate bum, he held up a gas station, an A. & P. store. But Matt did not become a criminal: adversity...
...Faulkner's latest fairy tale about the human race contains no bogeyman, but as usual his protagonists have their hearts in the wrong place. Tacit thesis of Pylon is that airmen are not people, but a race apart, unaccountable, sinister, inhuman. "They ain't human like us. . . . Crash one and it ain't even blood when you haul him out; it's cylinder oil the same as in the crankcase." Though Author Faulkner obviously admires his creatures, they will seem to most readers less god-like than monstrous. But those who can manage to skip Faulkneresque...