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Divorced. David Wark Griffith, 73, pioneer producer of the cinema extravaganza (The Birth of a Nation, Intolerance); by Evelyn Marjorie Baldwin Griffith, 37, his second; after nearly twelve years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...
Naturally, all these things mean nothing if the Crimson can best Yale tomorrow. The Blue appears to be the team to beat. Anson Gardner, Linton Baldwin and George Wade are the three strongest EII runners, and judging from performance against a common opponent, Columbia, Yale would seem to have an edge on Princeton. Yale trimmed Columbia 26 to 29, while the Tigers lost out to the same squad, 44 to 40, in a trl meet which Penn...
...with a Bang. Human bodies can stand this alarming torment. But now comes the problem of getting out of the cockpit. "Climb out and jump?" Baldwin asks. "Try it in a plane making 600 miles an hour. . . . You can't move; the wind plasters you into your seat. ... So what...
...shell. The difficulty is getting the seat out fast enough to clear the plane, but not so fast that the sudden acceleration will injure the human spine or break the hip bones. The prospects for this look fairly good. Wright Field workers have proved by experiments on themselves, says Baldwin, "that a man can take even the forces of 20 'Gs' [20 times the force of gravity] on his hip bones for a very short period without damage...
Down without Effort. Once you're out, Baldwin says, there isn't enough air to breathe. A special bottle of oxygen may fix that. But the "opening shock" at high altitudes is too great to risk. It is better to fall into denser air before using the parachute. Wright Field has developed a gadget that opens the chute at the proper altitude, whether the pilot is conscious...