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...formed on the wings. . . . Ice formed on the instruments and confused the pilot. . . . The pilot found himself suddenly too near the ground and jerked his controls too sharply, tearing off the wing. . . . A propeller blade snapped. . . . Those theories and many others were heard last week. But there was no final answer to the question: What caused the Transcontinental & Western Air plane crash in which Nation-famed Knute Kenneth Rockne and seven others were killed? (TIME, Apr. 6). The plane, a trimotored Fokker, tumbled out of the low clouds near Bazaar, Kan., with its right wing fluttering after it. It buried...
Most enlightening report came from the Department of Commerce which carefully stipulated that it must not be construed as an official finding. The Department inspectors dug the engines out of the earth to find that the right outboard engine had no propeller blades nor propeller hub, although the safety nut which holds them in place was still intact. The hub must have been broken. If, as reported, ice collected on the wings then it may have collected on the propeller hub too. A piece of ice dislodged from the hub might have struck a whirling blade and broken...
...many of the drawings and water colors of Picasso there is evidence of a widespread tendency in modern art toward the expression of an extremely limited aspect of a subject. The Greeks would have smiled at those who become ecstatic in contemplation of a shoulder blade, a heel, or a lobe of an ear seen from an unusual angle. And many contemporary artists, in their fragmentary, abortive, productions, have given more proof of ingenuity than of genius...
There came yesterday, by registered and special delivery mail, from Kauhava Puukkotehdas, in Finland-the finest Puukko knife I have ever seen. Hand made, six-inch tainless steel blade, black ebonite handle with my name embossed thereon in gold leaf, and with genuine leather sheath-it is a knife to behold...
...play has to do with a French provincial politician (Mr. Love) who hires a young blade (Mr. Rathbone) to compromise the wife (Ann Andrews) of a crotchety old royalist (Mr. Kerr). In this way the politician will be able to marry the wife without the unpleasant notoriety which would ensue should he do the compromising himself. It is inevitable that Mr. Rathbone should fall in love with Miss Andrews, that Mr. Love should become irked, expose the scheme to Mr. Kerr, who has known about it all the time. Gracefully the affair is settled, Mr. Rathbone acquiring a racehorse...