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...shore of Kent, a big new Farman Goliath passenger plane, belonging to the French Air Union, sent chills through its 13 passengers by groping low for its bearings, faltering as with engine trouble. Steering over the marsh toward the village of Hurst, the pilot struggled with his controls. A barn roof loomed underneath. The world tipped crazily, spinning around. Crash! A haystack flew at the shrieking passengers, then another, then the cabin crushed in upon them, everything upside down in pain, screams, a horrifying silence. Some of the passengers regained consciousness before they were dragged out; some awoke in Folkestone...
...seemed more concerned with the chores than the first officer of the realm. Once or twice he puckered his nose when he noticed Mr. Coolidge stoop to pick up something, then walk to a large pile of junk, old iron, odds and ends, between the house and the barn. It developed that the President had salvaged some rusty wire nails...
...Bridgewater, Conn., "in George Pratt's old tobacco barn," a student summer university was opened last week by the National Student Forum. The first conferences, led by Editor Douglas Haskell of the New Student, were on the subject of college journalism. Future sessions, the prospectus explains, will be devoted to digesting, with the aid of college professors, various "green apples" lately laid before the "new" student-recent books on sociology, psychology, education, science, drama. Here, too, "good fellowship" is stressed. The scene is pastoral, the cost low, designed to suit "the overwhelming minority." Host Pratt, a recent Harvard graduate...
Last week too Jesse L. Lasky's original barn studio in Hollywood, Calif., was torn down. It gave him -a onetime San Francisco newspaperman, Alaskan goldhunter, Hawaiian bandsman-his great opportunity towards wealth 12 years...
...What opened "in George Pratt's old tobacco barn...