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...copilot, Ralph Stevens, also of Seattle, was in control shortly after we got into the air. Suddenly he switched on the landing lights. He said he thought he saw an aircraft approaching us headon. I noticed the objects then for the first time. We saw four or five 'somethings.' One was larger than the rest and, for the most part, kept off the right of the other three or four Similar, but smaller, objects...
Eleanor Roosevelt, who had dozed at the wheel of her new Lincoln sedan, came out of a three-way smashup with her appearance changed a bit but her sense of humor intact. Bowling down to Manhattan from Hyde Park she had crossed the white line, smacked one car headon, sideswiped another. Four people besides herself were bunged up. "I myself am quite well," she reported promptly in her column, "though for some time I shall look as though I had been in a football game without having taken any training. My eyes are black and blue. In fact...
...most recent issue of England's Architectural Review to reach the U.S., pilgrims and tourists could at last look at Edward face to face. "By kind permission of the Dean," the Architectural Review's photographer clambered up inside the canopy to photograph the curly-bearded King, headon...
...week's end President Truman's friends agreed that: the President had unhesitatingly met the problem of peace headon; had proved himself a jaunty master of the difficult art of delegating authority; had accomplished smoothly in a few days what many of Washington's war-wearied officials had thought would take far longer...
...Huron's southern tip promised trouble. But for the first few hours there was only an innocent breeze to nudge the racers along the 243-mile course from Port Huron to Mackinac Island. Shortly after midnight, the storm swooped down from the northeast. Freakish gusts hit the fleet headon, built mountains of water that swirled 20 feet high...