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...farmer named Walter Morgan got a pilot to take him aloft for a parachute jump. He leaped out of the plane at 1,800 feet, gave 2,000 spectators near heart failure by letting himself fall free until he was halfway to the ground. Then he yanked his rip cord, landed calmly in a field, said: "That's what an old man can do when he lets liquor alone...
...bogas are partly to blame for the river troubles. In 1937, they formed a union and loudly protested that their steamer captains did nothing "except eat chicken and pull the whistle cord." Within three years, they got shipowners to boost crew complements from 35 to 50, cut hours, raise wages, provide meals-and extras between meals...
Enough's Enough. In Milwaukee, police asked James Beard to explain how he came to be stalking down the street with a telephone cord and receiver hanging around his neck, learned that Beard had been given one wrong number too many...
...Marie Cord revealed two of her heart's desires--and a little bit more--last night while cavorting around The Gay Nineties in a moving little epic titled "Mrs. Bottomly's Bustle...
American's "only choice for survival" rests with immediate steps toward making possible a world government. United World Federalists chairman cord Meyer, Jr. told an audience of over 150 at the Second Annual AVC Banquet last night in the Hotel Commander...