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...half, during which Sr. Machado seemed calm, his entourage nervous. At 3:32 p. m. the amphibian roared away. That evening it came down in the lee of Andros Island in the Bahamas. The refugees spent the night aboard, next day flying on to Nassau. There Machado, haggard in his crumpled white linen suit (he had had no time to pack even a suitcase), led his party to the sumptuous, somnolent Royal Victoria Hotel. He ordered tea, whiskey, a bath and a tailor. "I am glad I am with English people," he said. "England understands trouble and my relations with...
Although he was haggard, his eyes bloodshot, Mattern permitted himself only a two-hour nap at Moscow. He worked over his plane slowly and painstakingly with Soviet mechanics under brilliant ground-flares, and had increased his lead to five hours when, shortly after midnight (third day) he whipped out of Moscow into the eastern moonlight. However his time across the Urals to Omsk was comparatively slow and he lost a considerable part of his lead. Then, apparently deciding to content himself with an unprecedented solo performance regardless of beating Post & Gatty, he rested in Omsk (where the others...
...Could not TIME . . . afford the two or three lines necessary to state that the use of barbiturates as antidotes for strychnine poisoning (TIME. March 13) was established by my associates Dr. Howard Wilcox Haggard and Mr. Leon Arnold Greenberg...
Someone cried: "All Christians will leave at once!" A few left. With haggard eyes Mr. Conway surveyed his congregation, began a sermon on "The Gift of the New Heart...
Late that evening a tired, trembling, haggard man appeared at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, asked for the physician in charge. Dr. Arthur Tiber answered. Announced the stranger thickly: "I am Lieutenant Coffey, of the Safety Bureau. The police have been looking for me all day. Please take my pistol from me. I am very nervous. I feel that I am going to have a breakdown...