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Diamond Needle. In Detroit, Eugene W. Bader, 11, was awarded $250 in damages after he was bitten by a cocker spaniel during a sand-lot baseball game when a twelve-year-old girl, rooting for the other team, sicked her dog onto him as he was sprinting around the bases on his home-run smash...
Reach for the Sky. (J. Arthur Rank). "Damn!" thought R.A.F. Cadet Douglas Bader (rhymes with ah'd her) as he lay in the smoking wreckage of his tiny biplane and inspected his shattered leg. "I won't be able to play rugger on Saturday." Cadet Bader was right. By Saturday both his legs were off. "Sssh!" he heard a nurse say. "There's a boy dying in there." The sick man stiffened. "Dying! We'll see," he thought grimly, and began to fight for his life...
...fact, 21-year-old Cadet Bader fought with a ferocious courage that amazed his doctors, who had given him up for dead. After that he astounded the artificial-leg industry, which assured him (as he hurried off to take his best girl dancing) that no man with two artificial legs could so much as walk without a cane. He then horrified the R.A.F.'s brass, which nervously denied him a peacetime flying commission. And ultimately, during the Battle of Britain, he painfully distressed the German Luftwaffe. For the few to whom so many owed so much owed much indeed...
...synthesis was announced in the current Journal of the American Chemical Society, only a year following the discovery of the drug's structure. Research was completed by Woodward; three Swiss chemists, F.E. Bader, H. Bickel, and A.J. Frey: and a Canadian, R. W. Kierstead...
...long as airplanes need a human pilot, Bader concluded, there ought to be planes around that are small enough to teach those pilots what it really is to fly. "In the jet age of the future, we may get planes without humans." Then, said the old fighter pilot sadly, no one will need to fly. "We can all sit in the basement pressing buttons marked Moscow...