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...another room. Peter Mathews heaved, tugged, pried, cursed. Across the area way from his window was an office whence he endeavored to attract attention by throwing quarters, dimes, pennies, pencils, erasers, matchboxes, paper clips. No one paid any attention. Peter Mathews, smart, then tied an inkbottle to the cord of his bathrobe, lowered it out of the window, banged it on the window below. A startled old lady appeared. In ten minutes disheveled Peter Mathews was rescued by policemen who arrested him for annoying the old lady...
When The Bough Breaks. After an absence of more than eight years, Pauline Frederick has returned to the Broadway stage in an unflattering vehicle. On The Silver Cord theme, this play is aimed at the machinations of unwholesome maternal love. Miss Frederick is called upon, in her part as the selfish mother, to frustrate her son's opportunity for adventure in business, to blight his romance with the girl he loves and, ultimately, to lose his slavish unnatural devotion. Not one scrap of her miserably written play rings true...
Century Air Lines, operated by Motor-maker Errett Lobban Cord, employed 23 pilots at a minimum wage of $350 a month and flying pay at $3 per daylight hour, $5 per hour at night. The company (which enjoys no mail contracts) announced a cut in base pay to $150, flying pay to remain the same. According to the com-pany the pilots would average $360 per month under the new scale. According to the pilots-all members of the new union-it amounted to a reduction of nearly 50%. They refused, made counter demands for union recognition, reported for work...
...control. Over the flatlands near Flushing Bay Pilot Dixon signalled Mechanic John Blair to yank the ripcord which would open a 25-ft. gash in the top of the helium cell, dropping the blimp instantly. Mechanic Blair leaned from a gondola window, put his weight on the cord, fell out to his death. The Columbia collapsed in a tangle of metal and fabric. From the wreck was dragged Pilot Dixon, unhurt...
Here ends the Cord Oath controversy. TIME is grateful for support and criticism of its policy, and repeats its promise to cause the minimum of offense in respect to newsworthy oaths.-ED. St. Gandhi's Teeth...