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...last of the flying saucers wheeled off and vanished (TIME, July 21, 1947), was suddenly full of whizzing lights and large shining objects. A pair of Eastern Air Lines pilots saw the first-some kind of wingless plane with two rows of lighted windows and a plume of red flame at its tail. Then two CAA employees saw a "gigantic silvery ball" floating over Yakima, Wash...
Maria Angelakopoulou, a pretty, 19-year-old Girl Scout, had the biggest day of her life. In Olympia, site of the Temple of Zeus, she kindled a flame for the Olympic Games at London by focusing the sun's rays on an olive branch. Maria's family was poor; her traditional white garment was a piece of borrowed store cloth held together with pins. Red bandits had cut off Olympia until the day before the ceremonies, so that only the skimpiest rehearsals were possible. A song from Euripides, to be chanted by a dozen small boys, was omitted...
...Tour's paintings. Last week visitors, clustered in one of the galleries of the Frick, could study for themselves the special marks of his great talent-the smooth, stylized surfaces, gleaming in ghostly candlelight; the quiet faces reflecting stolid patience; a slender hand, translucent to the flame...
...feet over the floor of a narrow valley near Mt. Carmel. It was heading into a coal mine's tall breaker building. Then it veered-and the next instant there was no more plane. It rammed a 66,000-volt transformer and disintegrated in a flash of flame. It was 1948's worst airline disaster, and the fourth worst in U.S. domestic airline history...
...round holes in wingtips and tail surfaces. One pilot described what it felt like: "The radio static kept building in intensity until I couldn't keep the earphone close to my ears. I heard what sounded like the sharp burst of a German 88 millimeter. A sheet of flame enveloped the whole cockpit. Everything looked a bit fuzzy . . . the instruments jumped around so much that I couldn't tell for a moment what was going on. I just let the airplane buck through...