Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The executioner was U.S. Master Sergeant John C. Woods, 43, of San Antonio, a short, chunky man who in his 15 years as U.S. Army executioner has hanged 347 people. Said he afterwards: "I hanged those ten Nazis . . . and I am proud of it. ... I wasn't nervous. . . . A...
Jazz without Labels. For short, smiling Joe Mooney, 35, it was a sweet triumph. He had played piano in a dozen forgotten bands, arranged music for Fats Waller, Jane Froman, Jack Teagarden, Paul Whiteman. In 1935, he bet someone that an accordion could be made to swing, learned to play...
Ex-Ambassador William C. Bullitt, badly injured in a traffic accident in 1945, went into a Manhattan hospital for a checkup on his spine, possibly an operation.
But the copilot was not in a DC-4. He was in a Constellation (which has a landing-gear lever where the DC-4 has its flap lever). Instead of the flaps coming up, the wheels came up. The Connie crashed seven feet, on to the runway. The crew and...
Within three hours after the wreck was spotted, a Navy PBY dropped down on a lake three miles from the wreck. From the moored plane, a 13-man rescue party from the U.S. Army, led by Dr. Samuel P. Martin, onetime Arctic explorer, fought its way in rubber boats up...