Word: cleveland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This cover, showing a color photograph of TIME'S "Man of the Week"-Donald Wills Douglas-was picked up by the writer beside the badly burned wreckage of a United Air Lines, Douglas-built "Mainliner" which crashed near Cleveland the night of May 24 with a loss of ten lives. This seems to me a rather extraordinary coincidence-a Douglas-built plane, TIME'S feature article on Douglas and the fact that a copy of TIME rode to disaster with this ill-fated group...
...crash of a United Air Liner in a Cleveland gulch last week, this much was known: at 11:07 p.m., the DST (Douglas Sleeper Transport) radioed Cleveland: SHIP OVER PARKMAN. FOUR THOUSAND FEET ALTITUDE. EVERYTHING O.K. A few minutes later Radio Operator James C. Wynne, in the Cleveland Airport control tower, saw the plane and prepared to "talk" Pilot James Brandon in to a landing. Suddenly the DST disappeared...
...officials removed the battered engines to their Cleveland shop, dismantled them. In the starboard engine they and Department of Commerce agents found a faulty master rod bearing and the crushed remnants of a link pin. That apparently accounted for the failure of one engine. Missing links to the disaster story were the failure of the other motor, and Pilot Brandon's failure to drop flares which would have shown him that the gully he crashed in was flanked by broad, roomy fields...
...learn much of style from David Grayson," he writes). In 1936, 30 years later, his aim is still waving around, but he hasn't fired a shot. He just goes on filling his journal with fatuous, trite, sentimental, philistine, ingenuous, graphic practice notes: about newspaper jobs in Cleveland, San Francisco, Denver, everything from news happenings to a synopsis of his novel (a stupendous family chronicle from Jeremiah I to Jeremiah IV), from election returns to querulous data on his wife's raising the baby on candy, from denunciations of automobiles and airplanes to pompous credos favoring Democracy. Typical...
Carl L. Billman '35, of Winchester, assistant in History; William B. Cavin, Jr. '37, of Upper Darby, Pa; Joseph Charles, Los Angeles, assistant in History; Harold van B. Cleveland '38, of Cincinnati; Howard E. Cox, of Carthage, Ill; H. Shippen Goodhue '38, of Boston; George F. Lowman '38, of New Canaan, Ct.; George von L. Meyer, Jr. '38, of Hamilton, and Casper W. Weinberger '38, of San Francisco...