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Nevada's sole Representative in Congress, nature-loving former Governor James Graves Scrugham. remembers seeing once, in the high Sierras, a mother eagle pushing her young one by one out of their eyrie over a sheer abyss, letting them flutter far earthward, swooping to save them just before they crashed, carrying them aloft to repeat the spartan experiment until they learned to fly. Representative Scrugham, a fairly New Dealish Democrat, was unopposed for renomination in last week's primary, will fight it out in November with Republican Harry Stewart, former mayor of Reno. But the Senatorial race...
...comin'" yells someone, amid other cries of pleasure. And she is coming. Poising delicately before the catastrophe, the walls slowly lean over the cellar far below; then rushes earthward. There is an instant of silence, immediately shattered by the magnificent thunder of the 20 tons of bricks smashing into the dobris. A cloud of dust shoots up, accompanied by a few stray bricks. The boys applaud the spectacle with hoarse cheering and yelling...
...soaked his clothes, brought the balloons down-to 600 ft. Rifleman Mullen jumped from the car, chanced a shot at the balloons 25-ft. above Mingalone's head, missed. His second shot punctured two of the spheres. To the great relief of the rescue squad, Mingalone thereupon settled earthward. But at this point the floating cameraman, library scissors in his teeth, attempted to climb to a ring five feet above his head to saw free some more of the bags. Numb from the cold and soggy with rain, he tangled in the drooping anchor line, dropped...
...clawing condors at the Japanese bombers' flanks. The Japanese wing leader signaled with a puff of smoke, all his following bombers let go their loads and zoomed upward to get away, but by a freak four Japanese craft were downed at the same instant, belched smoke and plunged earthward like meteors, streaming flames...
...Biddle, William Glackens, vigorous, self-taught Joe Jones of Missouri, Henry Botkin, Robert Brackman, Alexander James, Sidney Laufman, Henry E. Mattson, Paul Sample, Louis Bouche. Showgoers lifted most surprised eyebrows when they beheld Doris Lee's Catastrophe, which showed a Zeppelin in flames over Manhattan, its passengers drifting earthward in parachutes (see cut). Working in arty Woodstock, N. Y., Mrs. Lee finished her fantasy long before the Hindenburg disaster. Painting the Manhattan skyline last August, she saw the Hindenburg fly over and imagined how it would look if it exploded...