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...flew 24 British Royal Air Force planes, fanwise, in quest of something. Across the rain-soaked sands beneath them crawled British armored cars, likewise looking. Finally one of the pilots found what they all sought. Round & round he circled over a black smudge on the dun-colored wasteland. Dipping earthward he saw a tangled mass of charred metal, a few corpses, letters scattered like snow upon the sands...
...other Warren Edwin Eaton, president of the Soaring Society of America, executive staff member of Norwich Pharmacal Co. (Unguentine), co-holder of the U. S. altitude record for sailplanes (TIME, Oct. 8). Newscameramen in an accompanying plane watched Eaton's glider cut loose, prepared to photograph it gliding earthward. Suddenly the glider dipped sharply, flipped over on its back. Instruments tumbled out of it, then Pilot Eaton. The photographers waited for his parachute to blossom out. It never did. Pilot Eaton fell 1,200 ft. to his death in three feet of water on the bay's edge...
...fanciest title belongs to the simplest canvas: Skull and Its Lyrical Appendage Leaning on a Night Table Which Has the Temperature of a Cardinal Bird's Nest. An elongated grand piano is flying off into the air. The keyboard runs earthward into a heart-shaped skull which is indeed leaning on a night table. Sharp eyes can find the cardinal bird, but there is no nest...
...great dazzling ball in his path which he afterward said was as "big as a house." Instinctively he whipped his plane into a bank. The passengers snapped awake and the pilot rushed forward in time to see the meteor shatter like a mammoth bomb. Glowing fragments streamed past, plunged earthward. The plane was unharmed. But on the ground a truck driver who saw the meteor telephoned police that a burning airplane was falling. California astronomers thought it likely that the phenomenon was, in reality, miles away from the airliner...
...good slogan for my novel might be, 'A Novel that Women Will Hate.' " Propaganda for masculine superiority, Beyond Woman is written with a passion that some readers will think proud, others despairing. Author Samuel's theme, that man's spirit is continually struggling against the earthward pull of woman's nature, will tread uncomfortably hard on many a U. S. husband's tender toe. If wives are so ill-advised as to read it, it may annoy them, but only temporarily...