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Ribs crushed, fabric ripped and afire, the airliner split in two, spilled three of its passengers into space, rocketed the others to the bottom of the bay. Across the water the De Havilland fluttered spinning to earth, shorn of its wing. In a final dive it smashed through the roof of a house, hurled its pilot, World War I Aviator Colin Abbot, into the street below...
Another convention highlight: Aviators' Blackouts. After breathing the thin air of high altitudes for a while, fliers sometimes faint when they gulp oxygen from their tanks or dive swiftly to richer air. In other words, their blackout may not be due to too little oxygen but to a sudden supply of too much. Last week the University of Pennsylvania's Pharmacologist Carl Frederic Schmidt, a top-notch U. S. respirationist, explained...
Yesterday, Bill Cunningham, sports seer of the Boston Post, using levy-League football as a spring board, took a flying swan dive into a deeper problem. His query: "What's happened to youth?" His answer: they've lost "not only physical energy but ... moral courage." As representative of the current younger-generation-is-going-to-the-dogs school of thought, that answer is a challenge...
...change in the Luftwaffe's tactics was as angry as it was revealing. Big bombers and dive bombers stopped flying over Britain almost entirely. In their place went fast light bombers and fighting planes fitted up with racks for a few medium bombs. These droned over high, in small but incessant waves. They made air-raid alarms last longer than ever, interrupting civilian life and preying upon morale more persistently than ever. Bombs were dropped more indiscriminately than ever, yet sometimes with more wickedly calculated aim. For every now & then a lone pilot would cut his motor, glide daringly...
...words of Bevin, Britons of all ranks and classes found sentiments expressed which, perhaps to their own surprise, they shared. A year of war hardship, in which rich and poor were sardined in the same shelters, dodged the same bombs, had acted as a strong leveling influence. Through his dive bombers and Messerschmitts Adolf Hitler had unintentionally brought about the same Gleichschaltung in Britain that years of repression and persecution had achieved in Germany. The British masses, plus a very large and rapidly increasing proportion of the middle and upper classes, were convinced that they did not want the Britain...