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...rescue party from the U.S. Army, led by Dr. Samuel P. Martin, onetime Arctic explorer, fought its way in rubber boats up the rocky, racing Southwest Gander River, tumbled repeatedly into the icy waters. They hacked their way through tangled forest to reach the wreck. A faint cheer went up from the survivors. Eighteen of the 44 were alive, all but four of them badly injured. Twenty-four had died in the crash (two died later). It was the worst accident in transatlantic flying history...
...that what the Security Council is for? . . . Maybe you've just seen a faint sign that U.S. diplomacy is growing...
...Reader Loewenbaum's sharp eyes failed to detect the faint signature, "C. Glinzer, 1867." The painting is a copy of Rembrandt's The Architect, and Copyist Glinzer chose to call it Archimedes (who was no mean architect...
...actors, the scientists were lauded with faint praise, but the picture, says Life Magazine, is "a remarkable piece of living history." The scenes were filmed here early last month...
...other field of artistic appreciation is there more interest in stylistic identification than among jazz fans. They are always listening to ancient collectors' items and trying to determine the author of this or that faint one or two bar solo practically indistinguishable from the whirring of the needle rubbing over the worn-out shellac. But the particular creature being described herein is not merely interested in identification, he is obsessed with it. He lies awake at nght thinking up harder and cleverer quizzes. Even the Chemistry Department would blanch at some of the masterpieces he turns out. There are lots...