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...some 25 ft. above the highway at the south end of the field, there were three rending crashes, whop! when the ship slammed full-tilt into a foot-thick pine power pole, crack! when the motors ripped out and thudded to earth, and smash! when the rest of the stricken plane bashed into a palmetto thicket. There was a spurt of flame from one motor, then silence...
...themselves, and last week in picturesquely worded communiques they "repulsed the barbarians who tried to cut off our garrison and airport at Nan-Yuan, driving them off with our broad-swords." During this engagement two small Japanese shells burst just inside Peiping's Yungting Gate, but panic-stricken Chinese peasants continued to flee in from the countryside...
...When the richest nation on earth permits seven million-nearly a third-of its school children to be taught by a quarter million teachers who receive less than $750 a year, and 30,000 poverty-stricken teachers who receive less than $450 a year, there is need for an awakening of civic pride in the discharge of obligations to children...
...when she spies on a red-headed white camper across the river, is seduced by him, but keeps going back. Her romance ends when the sheriff kills her lover, who is wanted for a Texas hold-up murder. After her redheaded, white baby is born she marries the conscience-stricken cousin who tipped off the sheriff after following her one night. But the child is the only thing she has any thought for. Until he is 13 she is still bathing him like a baby. Later to keep him in school in Chicago, she sends him her wages, sells...
...true, love & laughter shows from bygone seasons. More than one summer stock company will offer Let Us Be Gay, Candlelight, The Second Man, Meet the Wife, not the least of whose virtues is that royalty rates are low. They will be performed by ambitious youngsters from little theatres, conscience-stricken celebrities temporarily on leave from the films, Broadway people with their futures before and behind them. New York and New England will as usual see the largest concentration of these plays and players (see map). A representative, but by no means comprehensive, summary of summer theatricals there and elsewhere...