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...truck driver. His ami was stretched through the second fence when, like a cat after a bird, a lion leaped, sank its great fangs, pulled him down into the pit. Three other lions pounced. While onlookers screamed helplessly, the lions dragged Stanley Stenson off into a clump of English hawthorn, crunched him to death...
...crone of 71 shuffled along a country road near Kingston, Md. one morning last week. Mrs. Mary Denston was on her way to see her daughter. Suddenly, from behind, black hands were laid upon her. Cackling and kicking feebly she was dragged by a young Negro buck to a clump of bushes. There, amid a flurry of leaves dancing rustily in the autumn sunshine, she was raped...
...near Chesterton, Ind., 50 mi. southeast of Chicago, were frightened by a terrific explosion overhead. They ran from their houses to see No. 23 gyrating crazily in the sky. its tail broken off. With its cabin lights ablaze, the plane spun to earth, whipped off the tops of a clump of trees, crashed on its back with another earsplitting blast. Towering flames did the rest. Investigators soon discovered this was no ordinary crash. A good ship, flown in good weather by a company which had lost no passenger in six years and 40 million miles of multi-motored flying, does...
...started gliding in 1929. At the July meet he persuaded his father to go up with him for a sail in his Dragonfly, a handsome two-place job built by famed Gliderman Hawley Bowlus. A sudden shift of wind at the moment of launching spilled the Dragonfly into a clump of bushes, a wreck. Rescuers heard Father du Pont ask calmly: "How do you get out of this violin case?" Neither was hurt. Few days later Pilot du Pont soared a new sailplane to 4,334 ft.-the meet altitude record, only 456 ft. short of Jack O'Meara...
...Richard Chichester du Pont, 24, son of Vice President Alexis Felix du Pont of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. took his father for his first hop in a sailplane. A shift in the wind whipped the heavy glider into a ground loop, spilled it into a clump of bushes. Pilot du Pont & parent were unscratched...