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While Copilot Clyde Russell sprayed a fire extinguisher on the burning wing, Pilot Dave Hissong coolly took his time, retracted his wheels, came down belly-flat in a ditch-scarred field. Steward Frank Gibbs shoved each man as far into the open air as he could. They had not stumbled more than 20 yards when flames swept through the cabin...
...House. Besides having his secretary and members of his family indicted, Mr. Chavez had other reason for feeling uncomfortable along with his ally, Mr. Dempsey. Last year they got Fred Healy, now indicted, appointed WPAdministrator in place of Lee Rowland, a friend of their political opponent, Governor Clyde Tingley. The warm-blooded Senator warned people not to condemn his friends and relatives before they had their day in court; meantime, his son-in-law took the "advisable" step of "separating himself" from the Department of Justice...
...mistake, accepts a contract for the Big Show which includes his doubling in a high-wire leap and Ann joining a snake act. Thereafter the story centres on the Big Show at Madison Square Garden, spotlights the thinly disguised big-time circus stars: the Flying Codonas, Hugo Zacchini, Clyde Beatty, and, most brilliantly of all, the "animal-audience." Sure enough, Bob's dog act is a flop. Ann is bitten by a huge python and has a miscarriage. And every high-wire leap plunges Bob closer to a nervous breakdown. When he is only a few days away from...
...Amateur Softball Association-met in Chicago for the sixth annual national championships. After a week of eliminations, played simultaneously in five different parks, the men's championship went to the Pohlar's Cafe team of Cincinnati (owned by the proprietors of a German beer garden), whose pitcher, Clyde Kirkendall, had pitched 127 consecutive scoreless innings (a record) earlier in the season. Women's championship, won by Cleveland's Num Num Girls for the past two years, went to the J. J. Kriegs of Alameda, Calif, (owned by a little clothing merchant...
...written in simple, popular style. They are a shrewd mixture of interesting fact, mental games and useful information. But The Popular Educator is more than a game or pastime. On its faculty are Harvard, Yale, University of Chicago professors, such famed educators as Historian Harry Elmer Barnes, Astronomer George Clyde Fisher, Archeologist Albert Ten Eyck Olmstead, Historian Allan Nevins, Dramatist Walter Prichard Eaton, Philosopher Harry Allen Overstreet. Their students include college graduates as well as men and women who never went to high school. In its first six months, National Educational Alliance has made a small profit, but President Crawley...