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...Last Chance Hill," spotted the burned wreckage of NC 12354, the incinerated remains of Pilot Holbrook. Copilot Barron, Stewardess Huckeby & all four passengers. Airline officials deduced that Pilot Holbrook had turned westward to skirt a storm area. Squeezed down by the thick blanket of clouds above, the plane had torn an Soft. swath through the treetops, crashed to earth in a blaze of flame. One body, flung clear of the wreckage, was found with hands snapped off at the wrist...
Heading the bill at the University this week is the screen version of the play which won the Pulitzer Prize this year and is still playing in New York, "Men in White". Torn between conflicting obligations Dr. Furguson, played by Clark Gable, is faced with the problem of continuing what promises to be a brilliant career as a surgeon or "riding" to oblivion in a limousine" with the pretty face and figure of Myrna Loy at this side. Gable turns in an adequate performance and is decidedly better than he has been in some of his earlier pictures. Myrna...
...hours of the day and night between Sever and Fogg, the President's house and the Faculty Club, is not a happy one. It Quincy were shut off completely, Fogg, the Faculty Club, and the Union would be brought into closer contact with the University. If the pavement were torn up and replaced by grass, Quincy Street would eventually appear to be merely an extension of the Yard, and the buildings on the East side would lose their present disconnected aspect...
...coincidence of interests, Senator Thomas is reported to have expressed a feeling that there is no reason why silver should be less an object of speculation than wheat or gold. This is a very beautiful thought, indeed, but it is to be hoped that the Senator's remark was torn ruthlessly from its proper context. As it stands, it is a rather pitiful revelation -- of the Senator...
...candle flickered, there was a shriek of torn wood that echoed through the 13th Century choir, and a dark shape hunched through a side door of the Cathedral of St. Bavon. Ghent and its canals slept on. Next morning it woke to find a panel of one of the world's most famed religious paintings wrenched away-the most sensational art robbery since the theft of the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911. Nobody today remembers Jodocus Vijdts, Lord of Pamele, but every art connoisseur knows the polyptich which it is said Hubert van Eyck painted...