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Lindbergh ax-jumped on to the ice chute to try to grab him, but Hopf's body flashed by. It left a trail of blood for 800 feet. Hopf was still breathing when they reached him. Lindbergh eased Hopf on to lashed skis for the tortuous descent...
...Washington trade marts, the payroll cuts are cause for concern. So far this year, retail trade in downtown Washington stores is running 4% under last year. Houses are not selling well, and apartment rentals are slow. Personal bank accounts have been rising steadily; Government employees, uncertain about where the ax will fall, are saving their money...
...Black Majesty, a 1928 bestseller about Haiti's famed King Christophe) and onetime (1940-46) NBC correspondent (TIME, Jan. 10, 1944). His cultured, velvety voice was last heard on a 1952 TV show, Campaigning with Stevenson. Unlike A.F.L.'s Edwards, who swings a crusader's meat ax at "the big-business boys." Vandercook (who will be on ABC's payroll) expects to deliver a quiet "expository commentary'' without a heavy pro-labor slant. "He seemed in the liberal tradition we liked." said a C.I.O. man. "That was good enough...
Just before the earthquake hit on the night of Dec. 15, 1811, there were some truly terrible doings out at the Lewis place in old Kentucky. Doc Lewis' son Lilburn had murdered his manservant George with an ax. Then, before the terrified eyes of his younger brother Isham and the other slaves, the body was thrown on the fire, the flesh burned off, the bones gathered and buried. What was young George's crime to fetch such dire punishment? He had broken a pitcher that had been prized by the boys' dead mother...
...McCarthy eliminated six other Senators who opposed him. A man who can defeat seven U.S. Senators is a power, and thus McCarthy's aura of invincibility began. By the end of 1951, the myth of McCarthy's power had reached the point where even journalists with no ax to grind had to cover McCarthy closely and seriously...