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...then came Virginia, and the balloon was punctured, deflated, and trampled into the sod of Charlottesville. Then too, came the injuries to Captain Vince Moravec and Jim Kenary that began a long, long chain of similar crippling blows...

Author: By Ronald M. Foster jr., | Title: '47 Football Success Was Fun While It Lasted | 2/2/1948 | See Source »

...saucer" high over Godman Field at Fort Knox, Ky., three National Guard pilots zoomed up in P-51s to investigate. At about 25,000 feet, Capt. Thomas Mantell's plane started to spin, plunged downward, and disintegrated at tree-level. The "saucer" turned out to be a weather balloon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Jan. 19, 1948 | 1/19/1948 | See Source »

Police and doctors told the rest of the story. Capocci was a balloon vendor who had lived in Stockholm for 19 years. He was mad. Ten years ago he tried to see the Italian minister (one of Ricci's predecessors), was received only by a clerk. He never forgot the slight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SWEDEN: The Christmas Caller | 1/5/1948 | See Source »

Student Council expediency collapsed like a punctured balloon before the onslaught of class-spirited indignation as Council members reneged on their previous decision last night, revising the entire '48 Permanent Class Committee election procedure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Backs Down on '48 Election Methods; Few Attend Open Meeting | 12/16/1947 | See Source »

...Oregon was the only state in World War II to suffer civilian war casualties (six killed by a Jap balloon bomb), and except for California, the only state to be shelled by Jap subs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Nov. 24, 1947 | 11/24/1947 | See Source »

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