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Probably responsible: some lax machinist who cut the part freehand and bored too deep, perhaps because his employer, a smalltime subcontractor, lacked a jig or automatic stop mechanism. An overrushed inspector tossed out some of the faulty parts; some he passed without tests. The fitting joined the right wing strut to the fuselage. Once it was welded into place, its weakness was hidden from final assembly inspections. But when the glider cut loose from the tow plane on its maiden flight, new stresses snapped the too-thin steel. The craft plummeted 1,500 feet...
Directed by Allan McN. Little, Instructor in Freehand Latin, the play is in rehearsal every afternoon and rapid progress is being made towards the opening. All performances are to be given in Sanders Theatre and will take place at 8.30 o'clock except for the opening one, which is especially for school children and will begin at 3.00 o'clock in the afternoon...
...clock this afternoon in the Church of the New Jerusalem, Cambridge, funeral services will be held in Harold Broadfield Warren, Instructor in Freehand Drawing, Retired, who died at his home here on Friday...
...Warren was born 75 years ago in Manchester, England, where he attended Ownes College, and whence he came to the United States, to take up his studies at the Boston Museum of Fine Art School. In 1912 he became connected with Harvard University as Instructor in Freehand Drawing, in which position he continued until retiring...
...throat and chest investigations by putting a tiny electric light at the front end of the tube which he saw Dr. Killian demonstrate in Philadelphia. Thus he could clearly see the smallest details of dark recesses, and reproduce them in drawings of exquisite details. (He is notably skillful at freehand drawing.) If he could see into a windpipe, lung or gullet, why not reach into them- remove foreign bodies, perform small operations? It was only necessary to invent forceps, pincers, clamps, scissors, knives small enough to slip through the tubes. They must be operated by long, slender The University...