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...From afar a tomeat ye-owls sympathetically. The boys stuff cotton into their cars and try to concentrate on their notes...
...finding a speck of land 120 ft. long, 90 ft. wide, and only three feet high, which no plane had ever seen. This tiny spot is Kingman Reef, discovered some 80 years ago by Captain John Kingman of the U. S. schooner Shooting Star. Other ships occasionally spotted it afar, but not until 1921 was it officially recorded by the U. S. S. Eagle...
...Fanchon Devoe (actual name: Mrs. Robert Lee Criswell) was graduated in 1921 from Ohio State University as Bess Willis. Successively a newspaper editor, an adwoman, a radio scriptwriter and author, she is now married to a well-to-do Circleville lawyer. Inspired to create Bachelor and having heard from afar of Manhattan's elegant Bachelor Lucius Beebe, she sought him out on his home grounds for advice. Bachelor Beebe, who does a weekly column on metropolitan high life and works on the dramatic side of the Herald Tribune, gave Editor Devoe two manuscripts, introduced her to Photographer Jerome Zerbe...
...whom were severely injured, one dead. Martin Johnson, with both jaws broken, skull cracked, a shattered hip and internal wounds, became hysterical with pain. Osa, with leg broken and a concussion, was able only to wipe his face. Rescuers struggling up the mountain heard his screams afar. The plane was almost intact, with one motor torn loose. Nearby was a small fire lookout station. There for nearly ten hours the injured lay before they could be carried down the precipitous slope. Next morning Martin Johnson died. At week's end two other passengers had also died...
Shaw admired Morris' daughter from afar until on one occasion he saw her staring at him carefully and quite deliberately make "a gesture of assent with her eyes." Deciding that he could not, as a brother-Communist, commit Morris' "beautiful daughter to a desperately insolvent marriage," Shaw said nothing to her. Still he believed that in some mystic way they were betrothed, and that she knew it, was consequently stunned when she ran off with a Comrade named Sparling, who was even poorer than himself. Nor was that all, for the rival's possibilities of future eminence...