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Some boys ran to the wreckage, picked up Pilot Collins. He was smiling feebly. "Pull me out, boys," he gasped, "I'm all through." Someone wiped the blood from his face with a handkerchief. "Never mind that," he whispered. "I'm done." They lifted him out of the debris and laid him on the grass to die. Soon the photographers arrived...
Mary Moore was nervous but she clutched her chiffon handkerchief and met the test bravely. Her voice is small but it is smooth, appealing. Unlike many a coloratura she was faithful to pitch throughout the laciest passages, took her top notes truly. In appearance the Met's youngest singer is as Irish as her ancestors who, she says, "were kings and poets and all." Her father is an employe of Anaconda Van Service. An uncle, Joseph Eustace, who encouraged her from the start, works for the New York City Government...
...company now sells 350,000 sets a year. At Yale, where he is on the Board of Athletic Control, A. C. Gilbert still has time to see that the vaulters get the best possible coaching and equipment. His New Haven home, in addition to his own works on handkerchief tricks, fun with magnets, what to do with chemicals, contains all books ever published about pole-vaulting, a comprehensive cinema library of pole-vaulters in slow motion...
After a second brief service at the Cathedral and a reception by New York's Catholic Club, Cardinal MacRory embarked once more, waving a scarlet handkerchief from the deck of the Saturnia, which flew the yellow-&-white Papal flag in his honor. To the Holy Father in Rome, said he, "I will give . . . a report that will gladden his heart...
Even when the foreman uttered the words that meant "electric chair," the courtroom doors were not unlocked. Every newshawk in the room was prepared for that emergency. A reporter down in front raised a red handkerchief, and a messenger at the rear door shoved a red slip of paper through the sill. One newshawk, poised to hurl colored iron balls through the window pane, was thwarted by lowered window blinds. Nerviest of all was Reporter Francis Toughill of the Philadelphia Record, who boldly scraped the insulation off the courtroom telephone wire, hooked in a telephone headset. Crouched in the balcony...