Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Invitation. In Haleiwa, T.H., burglars approached the closed rear door of the Crash...
...after a five-week Pacific junket and unburdened himself of a wealth of political opinions: 1) though General Douglas MacArthur is not a presidential candidate, he would not refuse a draft; 2) "There will be no damned foreigners in the Illinois G.O.P. primary. If Dewey or Stassen try to crash . . . we'll have to do something about it"; 3) "I think very highly of Warren, but a man cannot go into a national convention with only one state. It's like trying to fly on one wing"; 4) "The Marshall Plan? To hell with the Marshall Plan...
...Horn's finding pointed an obvious moral for air travelers: don't fly with a pilot who has just had a crash. For airlines and pilots, that conclusion poses a dilemma. How can the pilot get back his confidence unless he flies? Horn suggests that a crashed pilot should go through a comeback course of supervised flying with a copilot. If his jitters are severe, it may help to talk out his trouble under a "hypnotic" drug...
Hill himself quit a $15,000 job as superintendent of Pittsburgh's schools to go back South "because I can do more here than anywhere else." Hill landed in education quite by accident; while recuperating from an auto crash in Arkansas, he took a job teaching-for $65 a month...
Died. General Jacques Leclerc (Vicomte Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque) 45, wartime field commander hero of the Fighting French, postwar Inspector-General of the French Army; in a plane crash; near Colomb-Bechar, on the Algeria-Morocco border. Brilliant, dashing, and a master tankman, Leclerc escaped from France in 1940, assumed the nom de guerre to avoid reprisals on his family...