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...forbid that they should awaken to see the crack-up in the moral fibre of their fellow citizens-the "not-our-war" people, the "what-can-we-do-anyway" people, the "scurry-to-cover" people! Yes, "anything short of war," and if that "anything" brings war, then let us show that cowardice is not the predominant trait of our nation...
Third Micheaux-Julian production will be an aviation picture in which Julian may act as aviator. "It will tell the story of my career, my crack-up when I tried to fly to Europe, my parachute jumping over the city, and my triumph in getting the Army to have Negro aviators...
Queerest air tragedy of recent months was the crack-up of No. 1 Mexican Airman Francisco ("Pancho") Sarabia in Washington last June. One moment his stubby Gee Bee Special, the Q.E.D. was winging smoothly above the Potomac River; the next, downfluttering like a stricken hawk, it rammed its nose fast in the river bottom. By the time rescuers reached him, Sarabia was drowned. Shaken by the loss of their idol, Mexican mobs growled darkly of sabotage...
Promptly after his election last March Pope Pius XII tossed a lifeline to a sinking friend, once-honored General Umberto Nobile. Mussolini had busted Airman Nobile out of the service when his 1928 Polar expedition ended with the crack-up of the dirigible Italia which killed eight crew members, ended Italy's lighter-than-aircraft dreams. In his small flat near the Tiber, where few friends dared visit him, Umberto Nobile silently endured the usual fate of Fascism's failures-ostracism. Only honor left was his membership in the Pontifical Academy of Science, conferred by the late Pius...
...head of its waiting list for both Atlantic and Pacific crossings, then only misty dreams. Before taking off for Siberia in 1935, Will Rogers tailed Pan American, asked if he could get back in time for the first Pacific flight. He could have, easily-but for the crack-up in lonely Point Barrow, Alaska, which killed him and his pilot, Wiley Post...