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...Fright...
...Canon City, Col., boys who thought Edgar Watson, 16, was gullible told him his girl wanted to see him in a vacant house of the neighborhood. Edgar Watson went there, found people who posed as the girl's angry parents, died of fright...
...rotten" plane as well as a good one. In a rebuilt Eaglerock Bullet which she called an "unairworthy crate rescued from the junkpile," devoid even of a turn-&- bank indicator, she flew solo last fortnight from Pittsburgh to Havana. Despite a 30-m.p.h. wind, despite her own admitted fright and premonition of failure, she took off last week from Havana to return across the Gulf. She never reached Miami. Planes and boats combed the Gulf, found no trace. Then, after three days silence, she cabled her mother from Nassau, Bahama Islands, that a gale had forced her to land...
...airplane, over perilous terrain and sharky waters, with an infected hand and short on sleep, was yet an amazing feat. Said she at Surabaya, Java, before starting across the Timor Sea: "The less I think of this, the better I know this last stretch will be the biggest fright of my life. . . . Oh, you don't know that forlorn feeling-above you, a grim black sky; underneath, the revolving sea, and you are quite alone in a frail machine, every moment fearing that the motor will fail and you will have to face calamity. No, no-never again...
...Main Street bystanders suddenly became uneasy when Editor Birdsall turned the corner, making his way toward the dentist and the Mayor. The Mayor was known to handle a gun as accurately as he spat tobacco juice. The bystanders' uneasiness changed to fright when he said quietly: "Well, I might as well have it out with you fellows...