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...plane, named the Clasina Madge for the daughter of Backer John Buffelin, Tacoma lumberman, had failed twice before: once (as the City of Tacoma) when Bromley & Gatty flew it 1,200 mi. from Tokyo and were forced back with a broken exhaust pipe; once when (as the Pacific) Thomas Ash Jr. was unable to take it off with the necessary fuel load. Japanese authorities took last week's tragedy as further excuse for withholding a flight permit from Hugh Herndon Jr. and Clyde Pangborn (TIME...
...wanted to destroy the painting or at least throw it into the ash can but was told the painting was government property and I would be arrested for destruction thereof if I destroyed the painting...
...wife of Radio Tenor Morton Downey, who last week became temporarily blind from exposing his eyes to a sunlamp. Joan, youngest daughter, married when she was 16, divorced at 18, now gets $2,000 a week from Fox (current picture: Hush Money). Constance, most spectacular of the three, has ash-blonde hair, big round eyes, bow-lips and an expletive vocabulary reputed to be the equal of her father's. As a débutante, she was one of the most provocative college prom girls of the Scott Fitzgeraldized era. Her second husband, Millionaire Philip Plant, caused...
...they transfer the emphasis from memory to creating thought and imagination. They give us a more definite standard for judging the intelligence and growth of the student, and they give written examinations a decreasingly important place in education. That is as it should be, for memory is only the ash that is left after enthusiasm and analysis have burned a path into uncharted realms; and written examinations depend too much on the moods of the student and the corrector to be left in college education much longer...
...Formula: 3.5% fat, 3.98% casein, .77% albumin, 4% milk sugar, .7% ash (salts), .18% miscellaneous solids, 86.87% water...