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Flyer Bjorkvall did not drown, but he nearly did. After fighting heart-breaking weather for 2,400 befogged and snowy miles, he suddenly found his engine overheating. With great luck he encountered a French trawler, succeeded in plopping safely into the chop beside her. Gushed he by wireless next day: "I felt myself being lifted over the rail while a voice cried, 'Courage, mon brave!' I believe that, for the first time in my life, I must have fainted...
Four times U. S. champion, trying to establish a new record with five championships in a row, Helen Jacobs won the first set on steady, well-placed chop strokes. In the second, she got a lead of 2-0, needed only four more games to add the U. S. title to the English one she won at Wimbledon this year. She could not get them. Flicking speedy forehand drives into the corners of the Jacobs court, pounding her American twist serve to force defensive returns, dropping soft shots just over the net when her opponent tried to play deep, Alice...
...schooner with no more newsworthy facts than that he had clicked on a radio for Alf Landon's acceptance speech (see below), trolled seven hours for tuna without getting a single strike. This week, bronzed and fit after a fortnight of his favorite sport, wearing new-grown mutton-chop whiskers like his late father's, the President ended his 417-mile cruise at Campobello Island, seeing his summer home for the first time since 1933. At week's end he planned to journey to Quebec for a one-day call on Canada's Governor General, Lord...
...design, Phantom of Sex Appeal, for which Artist Sheila Legge solemnly glided through the crowded, stuffy gallery in a tight white satin gown, her head in a wire cage covered with pink paper rosebuds, a facsimile female leg in her hand. She had substituted the leg for a pork chop prescribed by Artist Dali...
...some 6,000,000 Germans voted for bullet-headed Ernst Thälmann for Chancellor. Communist Thalmann was still alive last week in a Nazi jail because Nazi strategists dared neither bring him to trial nor chop off his head. Despite all the exiles, all the concentration camps, all the executions, there were still enough undercover followers of Ernst Thalmann left at large in Germany last week to spread a thin layer of anti-Nazi leaflets from Switzerland to the Baltic...