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...most widely held theory, to explain this year's spurt, is a search for outdoor sport to break the winter grind with the books. "Studies are cramping," says Grace Tuttle '49. "Even on a nearby ski slope, college seems miles away." There's nothing like it to restore tired tissues after a round of examinations, says Betty Crowley '49. And Georgette Haigh '49 thinks that skiing provides the balance between study and recreation that is demanded by the new type of college girl...
...radio report from a Miami-bound Eastern Airlines Constellation with 69 people aboard. One of its engines had exploded, a piece of flying metal had killed a steward, and preparations were being made to ditch it, if necessary, 130 miles out at sea. Coast Guard planes began a frantic search. After two hoars of tomblike silence, the missing plane, its radio and one engine dead, landed on an abandoned naval airstrip at Bunnell, Fla., blew two tires and came to a safe stop...
...York City and suburbs, he found the U.S. "a very rosy prospect" for composers : "The American composer has little to grumble at; compared with English composers, nothing." In fact, he saw a danger of "excessive nationalism" in the way conductors indiscriminately played U.S. music, and in American composers' search for a style of their own. Says Britten: "No accident of nationality has ever excused a composer for writing bad music." Besides, in the U.S. there was too much seeking out, too much pushing of composers "before they are ready...
...Bound from the Azores to Bermuda, a four-engined British South American Airways transport radioed an 11 p.m. "All's well." Then silence. At week's end, despite the greatest peacetime air search of the Atlantic, no vestige of the plane had been found. Aboard were a crew of six and 21 passengers, including Australian-born, battle-greyed Air Marshal Sir Arthur Coningham, 52, who commanded the Allied tactical air forces at the invasion of Normandy...
...searching B-17 plane spotted the crashed C-47, circled low. Then a wingtip brushed the mountain and the search plane crashed, too. Only survivor of a ten-man crew, Sergeant Angelo LaSalle of Des Moines, Iowa, was thrown clear, stumbled away from the burning fragments, fell unconscious in the snow. There he was found by Horst Kupski, a onetime Luftwaffe pilot working for an upland French farmer. Kupski wrapped LaSalle in a blanket, removed his own shoes, coat and hat to clothe the American, got him down the mountainside...