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Died. Baroness Orczy (Mrs. Montague Barstow), 82, champagne-and-swordplay novelist whose foppish, daredevil hero, "The Scarlet Pimpernel," first appeared in 1905, reappeared in twelve subsequent novels and one book of short stories, was the heaviest single contributor to her fame (and a Riviera villa); in London...
...either academic pressure or inability to cope with the youthful charges, Brooks must constantly look out for new faces. Usually he can tell at a glance how an individual will fare. The rule's exception came when an inarticulate Danish exchange student applied. Brooks hesitated. Later a Continental fencing daredevil was holding a popeyed crowd spellbound...
Dashing, golden-haired George Armstrong Custer, a major general at 24, was a wild daredevil of a soldier and the greatest Indian fighter of his time-according to the history books. Schoolboys are told that the battle to the last man at the Little Big Horn on June 25, 1876 was one of the most heroic chapters in U.S. history...
...picture starts out auspiciously as the story of the first flyers who took the airmail, back in the "Twenties. The scene is a circus, complete with a rudimentary chorus line and four brothers who put on a daredevil air show. The audience is set for an hour and a half of rare entertainment, when the story collapses with a whimper into the worst kind of homey, ineptly-handled drama. One of the brothers, a self-styled ladies' man, marries, and brings his wife to live with his brethren, all of whom fly the mail. Inevitably, one of them...
...daredevil or exhibitionist, Slick Goodlin took over the job of testing the XS-1 on the understanding that he would fly it no faster than 82% of the speed of sound unless he was convinced that it would safely go faster. Approximately 20 more preliminary flights are planned between now and next summer; Goodlin has the privilege of recommending that the XS-1 be flown pilotless by radio control in its supersonic test. But last week, after months of devouring engineering and wind-tunnel reports, and after handling the plane under power, he said: "I know what this airplane...