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...Although his pushmobile racer suffered tour smashed wheels and he was badly bruised in a first-heat crackup, eleven-year-old Joe Lunn of Thomasville, Ga. effected repairs, got bandaged up, and pressed on to win the 15th running of the All American Soap Box Derby at Akron, Ohio. Time for the 9754-ft. course...
Soon after, Manning had a crackup in his own Fairchild monoplane. He was hauled from the wreckage with a concussion, compound fractures of both legs, a compound jaw fracture, a broken arm, a broken nose, and countless cuts and bruises. Doctors thought he would never walk again. But nine months after the crackup he was back on the bridge...
...squeamish. No one has brought back a truer, tougher fictional report on jungle warfare since Norman Mailer wrote The Naked and the Dead. But the shocks in Look Down in Mercy are shocks of event minus droning obscenities. Novelist Baxter writes his story of the crackup of Captain Anthony Kent with what restraint...
Died. Robert Walker, 32, boyish cinemactor (Strangers on a Train; See Here, Private Hargrove), at the peak of a successful screen comeback after an emotional crackup and widely publicized alcoholic escapades; of respiratory failure, after a doctor had given him a dose of sodium amytal to quiet an emotional upset; in Hollywood. Born in Salt Lake City (where his father edited the Deseret News), Walker went off to theatrical school in New York, there met Phyllis Isley, married her, lived in artistic poverty while appearing in Greenwich Village theatricals. In 1943, both got big breaks in Hollywood-he in Bataan...
...Counselor in Cairo, his polished calm cracked. One night he burst into the apartment of a friend, smashed every stick of furniture in the place. The Foreign Office considered him too valuable to let him go. He was recalled to London, given psychiatric treatment. His new job after the crackup: boss of the Foreign Office's American section...