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Gently, Magistrate Brodsky told Nathan Goldberg there was nothing to be done. Goldberg stumbled homeward, wailing: "She is through with life. She is buried, do you hear! She can never come home no more...
...solemn test flight was conducted, with the expert counsel of General Superintendent William H. Collins, who became pigeon-conscious when launching ships for Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. Two dozen racing homers from the coops of Tire-Builder Frank Eisentrout were released in the dock. They flapped gladly, promptly homeward. So impressive was the demonstration that the number of christening pigeons was raised...
Upon Governor Roosevelt played the pressspotlight throughout the conference. Other Governors treated him as if he already had the Democratic nomination. Homeward bound, he stopped off in Ohio to greet potent Democrats in that State. Political speculation in the press, outrunning the facts, began to turn on a Roosevelt running mate for the national ticket. Last week's announcement of Col. Edward Mandell House, oldtime Wilsonian adviser, that he was for the New York Governor for President, seemed to put Mr. Roosevelt closer than ever before to the White House...
Crowning absurdity cited by Writer Allen was the decoration of youthful Capt. Benjamin Mendez who, sent by the Colombian Government to the U. S. to learn to fly, was known at Mitchel Field as "Benny the Gas Boy." He won the Cross for a homeward flight to Bogota "during which Mendez wrecked at least two airplanes and took nearly enough time to have flown around the world...
...more adventures. The anchor was stowed below decks and everything battened down. Before they lost sight of Nantucket Light-ship the sea freshened. The cook got seasick, the barometer went down. It looked as if there might be trouble. Captain Irving Johnson took some notes of that wild homeward journey of the little boat, a 19-day trip through seven fearful storms that amounted practically to one continuous storm. He had even held a camera steady enough to photograph the deck after a sea broke over the bow. Pinnacle and compass were washed overboard. Water poured in, set the food...