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...high-school boys told no tales after an air ride at Otterbein...
...saddest of all was the case of Luke Briotta, 13, deaf and dumb. Pilot Charles Potholm took him for a ride and went into a loop-the-loop with the idea of frightening him into speech and hearing. But the plane never came out of that loop; Luke Briotta is still deaf and dumb-and dead. There had been a sickening dive, an explosion and flames, an ugly hole in a swamp near Agawam, Mass. Pilot Potholm and another passenger also died...
...intent was to run 1451 miles-up and across Kansas, south through high Oklahoma and higher Texas, across the Rio Grande, then southwest across Mexico, 1,451 miles to the Gulf of California. The line from Kansas City to Wichita, Kan. is still "under construction." From Wichita one can ride 735 miles to Alpine, Texas, without changing cars-on a local train...
...book, We, was so impressed by the success of that book that he said to his friends: "Find me a 'lady Lindbergh.' " Amelia Earhart was found. She became the first woman to cross the Atlantic in an airplane. Last week, she took Mr. Putnam for an air ride from New York to Pittsburgh. Landing at Rodger's Field, her plane struck an unmarked ditch, turned over, was wrecked. Pilot Earhart and Passenger Putnam suffered no injuries. Said Passenger Putnam: "The accident occurred through no fault of hers...
Mayor Gillis announced that he would run for Governor of Massachusetts. He started a newspaper called Bossyisms. Said he: "What a sleigh ride! Boy, oh boy, what a hooking! . . . I'll turn the home town inside out! It would take me fifty years to tell all I know about some people...