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Looking around to see if the boss is looking, and finding him absorbed in something else, some of the boys clamber up the shaky wall, and disregarding the poignant fact that the bricks upon which they seek footholds may crumble away beneath them with unchivalric suddenness, they loop the cable around the highest point they can reach. Then, with the grace and recklessness of mountain goats they skip down to safety, shouting "Okay, John!" to the toothy pug seated in the driver's seat of the truck...
...bodies and as investigators from Northwest Air's headquarters and from Washington hustled unhappily toward the wreck, no one had any idea what could have caused it. The weather on the spot was blowy but no tempest. The plane had the best of equipment, even a unique loop antenna made static-proof by enclosure in the ship's transparent plexiglass nose. Lockheed 143's can maintain their height on one engine and it seemed incredible that both could have cut out simultaneously. Said Farmer Homer White, first witness to re-turn to Bozeman: "I think the clearing...
...pick-up pressure on the record is only 0.176 ounces while that of the ordinary pick-up is from one to three ounces. It is an inductor dynamic type with a permanent sapphire needle on a single-loop, U-shaped inductor in a strong magnetic field...
...sing Pollione in Norma that night. To three other tenors went Mr. Longone. None of them knew the part. Frantically he telephoned to Manhattan's Metropolitan Tenor Frederick Jagel. Tubby Tenor Jagel caught a plane, flew 700-odd miles to Chicago's Municipal Airport, drove into the Loop behind police escort, trotted perspiring into the opera house, squirmed into a costume, bobbed on stage half-an-hour late, stumbled on a mossy step beside the Druids' oak, lost a shoe...
Before 4 a. m. police roused Minneapolis Star Gossip Columnist Cedric Adams, hustled him to headquarters, demanded to know where he picked up the amazing tip he had printed ten days earlier: "I met a very close friend of mine in the Loop last night. He's given me scores of items in the past; some of them have been little scoops, too. And he's never been wrong. Here's one he dropped last night-you can take it for what it's worth. A prominent labor leader in Minneapolis will be 'taken...