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Cruising along at 6,000 ft., Pilots Eugene Schacher and Ed Hefley suddenly smelled a gasoline leak, cut the motor. Without warning a backfire enveloped the engine in flames. Pilot Hefley put the ship into a sharp dive. At 275 m.p.h. it hurtled downward, pancaked on the nearest field, slithered to a stop. Out from their blazing little hole Jesse Jones and three fellow-passengers yanked the pilots, arms and faces seared and sooty. Few minutes later the plane was smoking ashes...
Thus Sociologist Eduard Christian Lindeman charts in current Survey Graphic the psychological nose dive taken in the past decade by the nation's youngsters. In support of this unsanguine appraisal, the Rockefeller-endowed American Youth Commission last week released results of a survey of 5,000,000 U. S. citizens between the ages...
Another Crimson hopeful is Henry Fitts in the dive, who is now totally recovered from his accident at Columbia last week and should be all set to give a tip-top performance tonight...
Other Crimson swimmers who are making the trip to New Haven are Bob Heskett in the breast stroke, Bernard Merriam in the dive, Dario Berizzi in the 220, Frank Coleman in the 220 and 440, and the relay team of John Colony, Donald, MeKay, John Bainbridge and Hutter...
...routine week's term at the Paramount and Fenway. If you missed him the first time, by all means go now. But be a little cautious about indulging that vague inclination toward a second seeing. It isn't quite no funny the second time to see Mr. Chaplin dive into four inches of water mistaken for a lake, or to watch him lead a Communist parade through the accident of having picked up a red flag fallen from the hind end of a truck...