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Next morning at dawn a United Airliner with eight dozing passengers was flying west over Solano County, Calif., at 7,000 ft. Co-pilot Archie Anderson had the wheel; the pilot was in the passengers' cabin. Suddenly Anderson saw a great dazzling ball in his path which he afterward said was as "big as a house." Instinctively he whipped his plane into a bank. The passengers snapped awake and the pilot rushed forward in time to see the meteor shatter like a mammoth bomb. Glowing fragments streamed past, plunged earthward. The plane was unharmed. But on the ground...
...Lindberghs took off again. Over western Oklahoma the motor quit. The Lindberghs landed in a cornfield. Forced to "lay over" pending repairs, they went to a nearby farm house where Anne Lindbergh donned an apron, helped Mrs. Homer Aitkens cook roast beef & mashed potatoes. Said Farmer Aitkens afterward: "That fellow didn't talk much, but he sure packed away the victuals. . . . He was just as fine as could be until some danged girl started pestering him for a picture...
...Phelpses were saved. "Govvie" jumped off the stern, found a dangling rope, clung to it for six hours. Said he afterward: "I had to watch women I'd met and danced with drop off one by one and hear their desperate and familiar voices pleading. Finally there was a perfect rain of people. A hundred or more came leaping over the side to escape a sudden burst of flames. They hit one another in the descent. Many sank like stones...
...restore in Austria the Habsburg Imperial anthem and uniforms. Today when in full dress an officer in the army of Austrian President Wilhelm Miklas can barely be distinguished from an officer of Kaiser Franz Josef. When Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg of Austria recently conferred with Premier Mussolini he vowed afterward that "even the name Habsburg was not mentioned." but no Italian doubted last week that Il Duce had merely found it more convenient to sav "Otto...
...hostility to Russia, 1815-1878, to the proposition, "The ballad is not literature"), but they are stiff enough to baffle most bright young Phi Beta Kappas. Cautious candidates commune with Mr. Roudybush for four months before attempting them. Confident candidates take the examinations first, often commune with Mr. Roudybush afterward for a second try. Each year 75 to 100 aspiring diplomats pay $225 apiece for the privilege. His school, now housed in a three-story Georgetown mansion, was founded in an apartment in 1907 by the late Angus MacDonald Crawford with one student. Since then nearly...