Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME (Aug. ii) under Jumping Devildogs, in enumerating various articles of equipment as carried by parachutists, stresses the importance of a knife by relating it, rather erroneously, to my parachute accident over San Diego, last May. The point is, salvation rested on staying with the plane, not cutting loose from...
"Don't do an Osipoff" is a poor slogan and is poor phraseology. It suggests the accident was the result of an error. Rest assured it was not.
> Lieut. Osipoff's accident occurred when faulty gear fouled his regular parachute on the tail assembly of the plane from which he was jumping, leaving him snarled in the shrouds and dangling in the air. He was spectacularly rescued by a Navy pilot who flew close enough to the...
Despite the accident, passengers crowded aboard. Shreve had brought not only practical steamboating to the Mississippi. He had brought luxury. The President was "finished with the finest woodwork and mirrors . . . meals equaled those of the best hotels and were served with much formality." In "the commodious bar," most of the...
The show consisted of 44 serious, professional-looking oils, gouaches and water-colors done by an assorted group of New York youngsters (aged 10 to 15) who had studied in the Saturday art classes of Greenwich Village's pioneering Little Red School House. Chosen for outstanding talent from New...