Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Other C. I. O. left-wing unions loudly reaffirmed their loyalty to their "great leader." A great leader or a repudiated man, Lewis had become the biggest issue in Labor. This week, with its annual convention just ahead, a jittery C. I. 0. faced a showdown. There was little question about John Lewis keeping his promise to resign. The question was what would happen...
...Anglo-Mexican Petroleum Co. appeared to the side, drew recklessly closer to the transport. Frantically the VASP pilot waggled him away, but the De Havilland never changed course. Straight for the Heinkel it headed, swerving desperately at the last minute, catching the transport square amidships with one wing...
Ribs crushed, fabric ripped and afire, the airliner split in two, spilled three of its passengers into space, rocketed the others to the bottom of the bay. Across the water the De Havilland fluttered spinning to earth, shorn of its wing. In a final dive it smashed through the roof of a house, hurled its pilot, World War I Aviator Colin Abbot, into the street below...
Born. To Cinemactress Toby Wing, grandniece of the late Dramatist Sir Arthur Wing Pinero, and Pilot Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill: a son, their second; at Miami Beach, Fla. Last spring their first son accidentally suffocated at the age of eleven months...
When "Life Goes To a Party On The Air" at Leverett House, Paul Wing NBC, and Bob White, WBZ, co-masters of ceremonies will bring to the WBZ microphone such Harvard-Brown football notables as Harvard Coach Skip Stahley, Harvard Captain Joseph Gardella, and Brown University Captain Louis Duesing. The Harvard Glee Club will entertain with several of their most popular numbers, while dance music will be supplied for the celebrating Collegiates by Lou Bonick and his orchestra, Feminine interest at the party will hail from Smith, Wellesley Vassar and Radcliffe...