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...inquiry, he revealed one of the most amazing escapes of all. Cornered on a narrow catwalk when the gasbags all around him leapt into flame, young Franz jumped through the fabric, fell to earth so hard he was stunned. He would have burned to death as the blazing hulk settled upon him, but a ballast tank burst above him, drenching him with cold water which both revived him and extinguished his burning clothes. Unharmed, he groped his way to safety...
...second. Last place it reached was the passenger section in the belly, about one-third back from the bow. Silhouetted by the holocaust, passengers began dropping out of the windows like peas from a collander. From the control cabin swarmed officers and crew. Struggling figures emerged from the blazing hulk, stumbled, rose, fell again in fiery suffocation or from broken legs, shock, concussion. Down on the slowest ones then smashed the enormous incandescent mass in a blazing blizzard of fabric, crashing girders, melted duralumin. Still out of the inferno crept struggling figures, afire from head to foot, some stark naked...
Locked deep in Widener's expansive hulk lie a red cardboard package tied with red silk cord, and a long wooden box, painted brown. Thereby hangs a tale...
...hundreds of scientists, inventors, engineers and industrialists assembled in Washington to observe the centennial of the U. S. Patent Office as an autonomous organization. Lionized were six famed inventors: Orville Wright; Simon Lake, pioneer submarine experimenter who is currently trying to salvage $4,000,000 in gold from the hulk of an old British frigate at the bottom of New York's East River; Vladimir Kosma Zworykin, RCA-Victor television ace; William David Coolidge, General Electric's No. 1 x-ray researcher; Lee De Forest, inventor of the audion radio tube; and Leo Hendrick Baekeland, inventor of Bakelite...
...admitting that he was 46 years old and stating that he would try to make the Varsity football team. True to his boast. Chief West last week trotted out for conditioning practice. He got a mild "Charley horse" when another squad member, carrying the Chief's 216 Ib. hulk down the field on his shoulders for exercise, dropped it on the ground...