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...City. Only he didn't exactly have a Manhattan residence yet: he was living in an apartment subleased from a sublessee. Anyway, said Wallace, Manhattan is just a place he's passing through. Eventually he hopes to spread out on his 120-acre chicken farm in South Salem...
...pilot's seat, Capt. H. M. Haskew was getting reports of dirty weather ahead at Winston-Salem. At 1:10 a.m. he reported that he was over Greensboro at 7,000 feet; over Winston-Salem (17 miles west of Greensboro) at 1:15 a.m. Directed by air traffic control, he let down to 4,000 feet. At 1:33 a.m. he was cleared to the Winston-Salem tower for landing...
...knows what happened next, or why. Haskew never called the tower. The CAA noticed later that the signal from the Winston-Salem radio range was weak and erratic. At 1:43 a.m. the plane smashed into the 2,200-ft. Blue Ridge foothills near Galax, Va., northwest of Winston-Salem and more than 50 miles from the field...
Blowhards. In Salem, Ore., Robert Lantz, while tying his baby daughter's shoes, gave an all-out sneeze that dislocated his shoulder, bounced the baby into a corner, blackened her eye. In Wheeling, W. Va., Eddie Bowie, driving his car, sneezed, plunged into another car, which rammed a third. Estimated damages...
Weatherbeaten. In Reedsport, Ore., Lifer John Tuel, who had broken out of the Salem State Penitentiary in the midst of an Oregon rainstorm, stumbled into jail ten days later, pleaded: "Lock me up. I just can't stand this weather...