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Four suits still pend after the tunnel streetcar crash. Helen Sheehy asks $40,000. Jean Sheehy asks $5,500. Irene Roylance asks $6,500; Mrs. Margaret McCabe $50,000. Scout Watson was paid $21,500 in an out-of-court settlement; 36 others have also settled out of court, receiving $11,283.25 in amounts ranging from $4 to $2,500.-ED. Lippmann, Keynes & Strachey...
Honored. Knute Kenneth Rockne, Notre Dame University's famed Norwegian-born football coach killed last fortnight in an airplane crash (TIME, April 6); by King Haakon VII of Norway, who sent Olaf Bernts, Norwegian consul in Chicago as his personal representative at the Rockne funeral in South Bend, Ind., and who made known that he would confer posthumous Norwegian knighthood upon Mr. Rockne within six months...
When frightened spectators and officials of an automobile race at Brooklands, England reached Sir Malcolm Campbell after he had swerved roaringly out of the track, he gasped: "I was braking, preparatory to taking a turn, and suddenly I heard a terrific crash and the front wheels locked. I was doing well over 100 m. p. h. and I don't know how I held the car on the track. Somehow I managed to pull her in. It was a ghastly experience...
...pilot. . . . The pilot found himself suddenly too near the ground and jerked his controls too sharply, tearing off the wing. . . . A propeller blade snapped. . . . Those theories and many others were heard last week. But there was no final answer to the question: What caused the Transcontinental & Western Air plane crash in which Nation-famed Knute Kenneth Rockne and seven others were killed? (TIME, Apr. 6). The plane, a trimotored Fokker, tumbled out of the low clouds near Bazaar, Kan., with its right wing fluttering after it. It buried its nose deep into the stony soil of flint hills. Only...
...father's opera hat was put in the cornerstone and ten stained glass windows commemorated the operas he produced. From that time on, Producer Hammerstein fell upon evil days. The Wild Rose, The Golden Dawn, Polly, Madeleine were not successes. Sweet Adeline was wrecked by the 1929 Crash. Says he: "I was a real estate operator with a theatre and office building to fill, as well as a producer. I was in a hurry to recoup my losses, and I made the mistake of trying to hurry a musical show. It can't be done. The trouble with...