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Magic Carpet. The Ryan monoplane Magic Carpet, flying through wind and rain over Chicago, disappeared into a thundercloud, tumbled out of it in a crazy spin, crashed through the top of a steel gas tank, plunged into 40 ft. of water at the bottom, killed Pilot Orville Suchy and two joyride girl passengers. European Derby. Pilot Fritz Morzik of Germany, who last year won the International Around-Europe Reliability Tour for light planes, was last week declared winner of this year's 4,750-mi. derby...
East Indian story-tellers spin yarns of hailstones as large as elephants. Never have scientific men seen such a phenomenon, never will. Largest they record weigh little over a pound and are about the size of baseballs. Last week such ice balls bombarded the Siatista district of Greek Macedonia, pelted 22 people to death...
...station, Lieut. Williams rolled a Curtiss Hawk biplane onto its back, throttled the motor, let one wing dip. Wheels to the sky, pilot's head to the ground, the little ship began swinging back and forth, dropping rapidly like an ever-lengthening pendulum. Ingeniously averting the dread "inverted spin" Williams landed, gave to the Navy his valuable findings on the mastery of inverted flight to promote safety...
Somewhat cryptically Mr. Gandhi added: "I am preparing a message for the women of India, who, I am becoming more and more convinced, can make a larger contribution than the men toward attainment of independence. . . . The children, let them stay at home and spin while their parents go out to court jail...
Author Joseph Hergesheimer, middleaged, fat, placid, writes with great care and with such involved, Henry-Jamesian qualification that he sometimes irritates. But he always manages to spin a compelling yarn. A Pennsylvania "Dutchman" (German), he was left some money at 21, began to write because he helped a woman novelist read her proof, disliked what he read. His first story he rewrote 20 times, parts of it 100 times; did not succeed in selling a story till 14 years later. He lives well in West Chester, Pa., collects antiques, is married. Other books: The Three Black Pennys, Quiet Cities, Tubal...