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...Lieut. Osipoff's accident occurred when faulty gear fouled his regular parachute on the tail assembly of the plane from which he was jumping, leaving him snarled in the shrouds and dangling in the air. He was spectacularly rescued by a Navy pilot who flew close enough to the other plane to take Osipoff into the cockpit. On receiving Osipoff's letter above, TIME unable to understand why, if he had had a knife, he could not have cut himself loose and descended with his emergency chute, wired him for enlightenment. Lieut. Osipoff replied as follows...
...overnight come results. Tony Failla of New Jersey Gear Co. testified to that...
Apparently, however, sporting goods and radios are not selling as well as before. "We can't blame it on economics, though," said one athletic gear salesman. "It's the weather. Here it's been so warm this month that nobody wants to stay inside and play squash. So they don't buy rackets." The same feeling was expressed in a radio shop. "On a sunny October afternoon the boys stay outdoors. They don't listen to radios. They don't buy any radios either...
...sits. The University was satisfied; the commuters were content with the best they thought they could get; but work around PBH came to a standstill. Commuters were everywhere and the social service work specified by the deed of trust under which the House was given slowed down to low gear and threatened to stop altogether, during the very post-depression years when it was most needed...
...Heckler Jack Oakie's face. Mexico City police hunting a stolen car stopped a sedan, apologized to Carol of Rumania. They had the wrong number. Passenger Henry Morgenthau Jr.'s nose was buried in a book when his plane ripped through a treetop, mangled the landing gear. At Philadelphia it did a groundloop. Declared Morgenthau: "I had no fears...