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...tanks exploded, spread flames which were soon shooting 40 ft. high. The wreckage rolled over, lay on its side across the road. The engine, torn completely off, fell 200 ft. away. The driver and another man shot through the windshield, badly hurt, clothes ablaze. Three others managed to crawl through the windows. But 18 screaming, fighting men and women burned to death inside...
Chief difficulty is that the team is short handed in the freestyle ranks, a situation caused by the failure of several potential crawl experts to report. This means that many of the regulars will have to double--some even triple and quadruple--duty in the meets. Luckily, most of this year's top-notch swimmers are capable of bearing this burden, but the final score of more than one meet may hinge upon the perfect conditioning of these multiple-duty...
...University of Texas eight years ago, 19-year-old Nolte McElroy bent down to crawl through a set of bedsprings to which city light wires had been connected. An excited, giggling crowd of Delta Kappa Epsilons were numbed into silence when Pledge McElroy fainted from shock, died 15 minutes later...
...Burns Lake, B. C.'s hospital last week, suffering from broken leg and exposure, Prospector Arthur Gammon told how a little black bear had saved his life. Injured by a falling tree, Prospector Gammon had started to crawl to his cabin two miles away, been overtaken by a snow-storm after six days. He inched into a cave, found a bear inside. The bear did not budge. When he resumed his crawl, the bear went with him. One day he fainted, came to to find the bear holding off an encircling pack of coyotes. Still standing guard, the bear...
...that makes critics unhappy and audiences hysterical. Such a scene is the one in which Dance Director George Randall (Dick Powell), hiding under the bed of Peggy Revere (Joan Blondell) when her onetime lover appears, has his protruding legs nipped by a Great Dane until he and the dog crawl out of the room. Less carefully tested but just as broad is the Yacht Club Boys' parody of a vaudeville tumbling act and their agreeable ditty, The Income Tax. There is some sketchy hoofing, a Harburg and Arlen ballad called In Your Own Quiet Way, and a tired little...