Word: fours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...just after taking off from Florianópolis, plane 2023, a Brazilian air force C-47 of the Correio Aereo Nacional, radioed back that it had run into heavy overcast, was going on instruments. Aboard were 13 servicemen, nine civilians including four women and two children, a crew of six. Plane 2023 was on a routine flight to Porto Alegre and then to Uruguaiana in the neighboring state of Rio Grande...
...Four minutes after the report, plane 2023 plowed into Cambirela Peak in the foothills of the Serra da Boa Vista. It took rescue parties 27 hours to reach the isolated site of the crash. All 28 aboard were dead. It was the worst air disaster in Brazilian history...
...months, truck farmers around Xochimilco had been pulling down the water level by digging artesian wells to feed their cauliflower and carrot patches. The municipality of Mexico City did nothing about it. As the waterline in the canals dipped under the one-foot mark (four feet is normal), the boatmen, led by Pacheco, tackled the problem themselves. Armed with picks & shovels, 1,000 of them with their wives and children started digging in the mucky canals. Thousands more joined them, all seeking new springs to feed Xochimilco...
...Louis, already tagged with a $500,000 alienation of affections suit by a Chicago clergyman named Matthew Faulkner, was named corespondent in the minister's divorce suit against Carolle Drake ("Mattie") Faulkner, a Manhattan model. Said Joe, whose own marriage broke up four months ago: "My relations with Mrs. Faulkner never went beyond the bounds of friendship...
...Four years before he died, Franz Joseph Haydn sat down to compile a "Catalogue of those Compositions which I recall offhand having composed from my 18th year to my 73rd year." Among the many string quartets, concertos and pieces for a musical clock, the old man dimly remembered some 118 symphonies (latest scholarly count: 104) and half a dozen operas, including one, L'Infedelta Fedele, which musicologists are now sure he never wrote. Last week, however, Manhattan music lovers and critics alike pounded their palms over one he both wrote and remembered...