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...occupants. It was the worst airline accident in U.S. history-but there was a worse one before the sun had set again. Next evening a Florida-bound Eastern Airlines DC-4, stricken by structural failure, plunged out of a sunlit sky into a Maryland bog, and the lives of the 53 passengers and crew were snuffed out in the twinkling...
Paul Burggraf of the Gold Coasters turned in the biggest splash of the evening by winning the 50-yard breast stroke in 33.1 seconds, while Lowell's Bog Good-speed repeated his consistently good work of last Thursday...
Particularly in the days when discussions about the veto bog down United Nations procedures, the Quaker method of getting "the sense of the meeting" by creatively weaving together majority and minority opinions into a "minute" acceptable to all might be used much more in government...
Under the assumed name of John Christy Moran, "a combination of my uncle's name and Aunt Mary Anne's" he was holding down a Cape Cod cranberry bog when he recognized his picture in a Boston paper under a $1000 reward caption last Saturday. His real name and old associations flashed back to him, and he quickly telegraphed his parents from an Orleans drug store...
Point of Rest. Whether the champagne was buoyant enough to lift agreement from the bog of stubborn deadlock, none knew at week's end. But the attitude of both U.S. and Russian delegates indicated that at Byrnes's private dinner U.S. policy was expressed more firmly than it had ever been before. In this lay such hope of agreement as there was. For the West at last realized that, if Hitler's repeated prediction of a deadly clash between the Eastern and Western allies was to be avoided, success would not come through appeasement of Russia...