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...coated with ice they could not fly. Thawed out by a game warden, they were soon sent on their way. Also last week, the misadventure which overtook two of Nature's best flying mechanisms overtook one of Man's best flying mechanisms 200 miles as the gull flies southwest of Hornell. Just outside of Pittsburgh, a twin-motored Douglas DC2 crippled by ice flopped helplessly to earth killing 13 people in 1937's third major air disaster...
When Stanislavsky started the Moscow Art Theatre in 1898, one of their first productions was Chekhov's The Sea Gull, which had been a resounding failure when it was first produced two years before...
...Mpulungu near Lake Tanganyika, while a third was grounded at Khartoum with piston trouble, later crashed at Gwelo, Southern Rhodesia. This left two planes in the air, one a big, twin-motored Envoy flown by Pilot Max Findlay with three companions, the second a small single-engined Percival Vega Gull flown by Pilot Charles William Anderson Scott, winner of the 1934 England-Australia air race, and Co-Pilot Giles Guthrie...
...illness was never specified, most Minnesotans were sure it was cancer of the stomach. By last April he was sufficiently better to file as candidate for the U. S. Senate on the Farmer-Labor ticket. Three weeks ago he was allowed to go to his summer home at Gull Lake, with a tube inserted in his intestines through which he took food. Last week, suddenly taking a turn for the worse, he was put on a stretcher, flown back to Rochester in a chartered airplane. Moaning with pain in spite of opiates, he arrived comatose with a high fever...
...watch had stopped at a certain time, woke to find that it had indeed stopped at that time. He had prophetic dreams of the Martinique volcano explosion and earthquake, of the arrival in Khartoum of a Cape-to-Cairo expedition, of a tragic factory fire in Paris. No gull for swamis and crystal-gazers, Soldier Dunne thought he might be falsely imagining, when he read of some event in a newspaper, that he had previously dreamed...