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Before boarding the Zeppelin Hindenburg for Europe, passengers used to wait in a bare, high-ceilinged room at the Lakehurst, N. J. Naval Air Station. Fortnight ago when fire destroyed the Hindenburg at Lakehurst (TIME, May 17), this chamber became a temporary morgue and 26 corpses lay there for two days awaiting identification and burial. Last week a Federal board of three investigators* and a crowd of newshawks sat down in the same room hopefully awaiting some clue to the disaster's cause. At week's end they had not found it but they had listened...
...Capt. Max Pruss of the Hindenburg was declared out of danger, but other crew members remained in a serious condition, and one more passenger died at the Paul Kimball Hospital at Lakewood, N. ]., bringing the death total...
...when a sudden updraft tossed her 1,000 ft. aloft with three members of the ground crew dangling from a line. Two presently fell to their deaths (TIME, May 23, 1932). With this spectacular incident in mind, all four newsreel cameramen at Lakehurst had turned their lenses on the Hindenburg's ground crew at the crucial moment, thus missed the first flare of flame. The investigators last week appealed for any amateur film which might shed new light...
...charred bones of the dirigible Hindenburg had not had five days to cool last week before the Saturday Evening Post was out on the nation's newsstands with an amazingly apposite article. Title: "Five O'Clock, Off California-"Author: Lieutenant George W. Campbell, U. S. N. Subject: the breaking-up and loss of the Navy dirigible Macon off Point Sur in 1935. Writing with the care and control of Stephen Crane's classic chronicle of disaster, The Open Boat, Lieut. Campbell tells a memorable tale. Without a wasted word, readers are made vividly aware of every disciplined...
...more example of the uncanny Post prescience which has seemingly operated in an astonishing number of cases to link its articles with red-hot, unpredictable news. It was natural enough that the Post, like Collier's, should run a dirigible article at about the time of the Hindenburg's first voyage of the spring season.* But only by luck did the Post article deal with disaster...