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Working his way through Times Square traffic that afternoon last Dec. 7, Homer Earl Bragg, 40, seemed to be just another Manhattan bus driver, somberly watchful, a little tense, ready to meet the wayfarer's question with a surly reply or surly silence. Then suddenly he began popping up & down in his seat. "You people have been tormenting me!" he shouted to his passengers. "Now I'm going to torment you!" He stepped down on the gas pedal, ran past a red light at Broadway and 43rd Street, piled into a taxicab and a crush of other cars...
...until last week, when a grand jury handed up its presentment, did Manhattanites learn the why & wherefore of the wayward bus driver. Bragg had been driving buses for the same company for nine years when, in 1945, he was admitted to Rockland State Hospital suffering from paranoid schizophrenia (severe mental derangement, with delusions of persecution). By year's end he was on the job again: the hospital director declared Bragg "sufficiently recovered to operate a motor vehicle." He was confined for another attack...
...Bragg died of a heart attack. An autopsy showed that his heart had been so badly damaged by a previous attack as to make him a danger to the public on this count also. An electrocardiogram should have shown this dangerous damage, but none had been taken...
...paratrooper at Fort Bragg told a TIME correspondent that he had nothing against premarital sex: "Before the property is yours, I don't see why anybody can't use it." But a buddy added: "After marriage, some guy taking my wife would be like taking my car and putting on a few extra miles. It might improve through use, but I like to drive my own." A student editor at Emory University states a widespread phenomenon among American women: "There are few who have any strong moral feelings against having affairs. They may be afraid. But if they...
...airborne forces have adopted faster troop planes, the opening shock has become more & more of a problem. At the Army's Airborne Center at Fort Bragg, N.C. this week, the Army Field Forces are testing a new parachute which may all but eliminate it. The new T-10 chute has a canopy two feet larger (30 feet) than the chute now in use (which slows the rate of descent) and, instead of being circular, is shaped like a soup bowl with an extended skirt around its edge (which cuts down on the pendulum-like motion of the parachute...