Word: accidentals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ten years ago, Betsey Barton was having the kind of good time only American girls of her background can have. She was 16, pretty, athletic, and the daughter of a rich father, famed Advertising Man Bruce Barton. She rode horseback, danced, played tennis, toured the world. Then she broke her...
Factors involved in these and training accidents included bad weather, youthful recklessness, carelessness and plain dumb flying-enemies against which the A.A.F. Office of Flying Safely has waged a long, persistent campaign, probing crackups, preaching sermons, dinning lessons. This is wastage which the A.A.F. has tried to cut down - even...
A curt dispatch came last week out of France: old Aristide Maillol, one of the leaders of modern sculpture, had been killed in an auto accident near his home in Banyuls, on the Mediterranean near the Spanish border.
But political criminality is in part an accident of place. The Germans were also gloating over two "criminals" last week. They were Giuseppe Togliatti, brother of Italy's No. 1 Communist, Palmiro Togliatti, and Mario Badoglio, son of Marshal Badoglio. The Germans threatened to kill them (and 38 others...
These findings are from Denver's Security Life & Accident Co.'s unique, five-year-old experiment in insuring high-school athletes against injury. With 60 new pigskin policies written last week, the company expects to have 250 (covering some 8,000 boys) in force by midseason. On its...