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...were all gathered near by. The Queen had cut short her Balmoral holiday a week before. The Duke of Gloucester had canceled a shooting trip to hurry to London. Princess Margaret flew down from Scotland. Princess Elizabeth and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, called off their plan to sail to Canada; they planned to fly over later if all went well. Even the Duke of Windsor, the elder brother whose abdication made George king, was on hand...
Fairbank procured the leave of absence in order to do research in a Japanese university for one year under a Guggenheim fellowship. He and his family were ready to sail from California when the Army banned the trip on August 17. On request from Fairbank, it is now reviewing the case. The professor said he had no idea of when they would reach a decision...
Promptly at 2 p.m., Fred Ruble of Denver began a soaring demonstration in his sail plane and drew gasps of delight and awe. Just after he landed, the crowd heard the snarl of a plane coming in fast and low. It was 1st Lieut. Norman L. Jones of Denver, an experienced Air Force pilot, arriving in a low-wing monoplane. He was late. All pilots had been instructed to report by 2 for final briefing on safety. He zoomed the plane over the field at a 45° angle, just 200 feet off the ground, trailing smoke from the skywriting...
...toll: 20 dead, 50 injured. Every family in town could count a member killed or hurt. The toll might have been even worse. Just before the crash, a crowd of children ran from the fatal spot to get a better look at Fred Ruble's sail plane...
...Tribesman was getting ready to sail this week. Her strange and valiant cargo: 63 men & women missionaries, with 20 children, bound for South America, to bring the Gospel to the wildest savages they could find...