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...reading your story of the medical care for the victims of the Hindenburg fire [TlME, May 17], I was much impressed by the prompt response and competence shown by the medical people around Lakehurst. However, I came near shuddering as I am sure did many doctors and others whose primary interest is Medicine, to note how the burned ones were daubed with oils and grease* "carron, linseed, castor, lard...
Your story of the Hindenburg disaster, I believe, is the finest piece of work that has been done by your staff since the inception of the magazine. Will you please convey our congratulations to your staff members who did the rewrite on this horrible catastrophe...
...Mattson, Paul Sample, Louis Bouche. Showgoers lifted most surprised eyebrows when they beheld Doris Lee's Catastrophe, which showed a Zeppelin in flames over Manhattan, its passengers drifting earthward in parachutes (see cut). Working in arty Woodstock, N. Y., Mrs. Lee finished her fantasy long before the Hindenburg disaster. Painting the Manhattan skyline last August, she saw the Hindenburg fly over and imagined how it would look if it exploded...
Although the destruction of the Hindenburg three weeks ago was the most completely witnessed aerial disaster in history, the subsequent Department of Commerce inquiry at Lakehurst droned along inconclusively for two weeks until uprose a man who had been in Austria when the great dirigible burned. Although he had not seen the tragedy which cost 36 lives and $3,000,000,* wise old Dr. Hugo Eckener, world's No. 1 lighter-than-air authority, had spent a week looking at the wreckage, examining meteorological records, still and motion picture films, listening to the testimony of survivors and ground crew...
Barring the possibility that the Hindenburg's commander, Captain Max Pruss, might reveal conflicting facts when he is recovered enough to testify, Dr. Eckener's explanation seemed likely to be accepted as final. He concluded that the disaster was caused: by lightning or static electricity from a small, following thunderstorm, igniting free gas high inside the rear of the envelope. Speaking in German translated by Vice President Frederick W. Meister of American Zeppelin Transport Co., and discarding sabotage in short order, Dr. Eckener reached his conclusion by the following reasoning: "Theoretically I believe there are only three possibilities...