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...times the wingless body turned over in space, then?Crash! Witnesses ran to the wreck, fearful of what they were about to see. A mechanic opened a steel casket in the pile of debris and out stepped M. Sauvant with the smiling grace of a circus acrobat. Later the inventor told-the-world...
...outskirts of Escragnolles in the French Riviera one day last week Albert Sauvant, 28, climbed into the cockpit of an ancient Farman biplane named Amour. The ''plane'' had neither wings nor motor.* Police had confiscated them to prevent Inventor Sauvant from doing what he proposed to do?deliberately crash, with himself in the plane, to demonstrate a shock-absorbing device which he said would save his life. Mechanics took hold of Amour (so named by Inventor Sauvant "because the experiment had become so dear to my heart''), pushed it across the field, over the 500-ft. cliff...
...York's prodigious crash-bang-rattle-screech, in the estimation of Health Commissioner Shirley Wilmott Wynne, engenders juvenile neuroses. The city's Noise Abatement Commission has found classrooms in nearly one-third of the public schools so din-ridden as to be virtually useless. In its researches the Commission (which does no actual abating but carries on investigations of noise) uses the "decibel," which measures differences between sounds and absolute silence. One decibel represents a sound just audible. Ten decibels make one "bel" (named for the late Inventor Alexander Graham Bell), which represents roughly the amount of sound...
President's Cohu's next official duty was a sad one. He had to investigate the crash of an American Airways plane with five passengers aboard at Calimesa, Calif., near San Bernardino. Pilot, co-pilot and passengers were killed. Among the passengers was a humble 21-year-old Avco employe, Albert Coburn, outgoing President Coburn...
Died. Johanna Gadski, 59, famed Wagnerian soprano, of a fractured skull received in an automobile crash; in Berlin. German-born, she was brought to the J. S. by Walter Damrosch in 1895 and, though young and inexperienced, was acclaimed by Manhattan. In recent years she toured the U. S. with the German Grand Opera Company, a mediocre organization which her rich young idolizer Geraldine Hall Bangs, Manhattan socialite, subsidized so that Gadski could go on singing in opera. Mrs. Bangs was driving the car which crashed last week with a Berlin trolley. She and Captain Hans Tauscher, Gadski...