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...when Flight 6 rumbled overhead toward the radio range. The sound of her engines died in the clouds. East of the field Pilot Scott made his turn, headed west, letting down along the beam. From the tower the operators saw Flight 6 break out over the red neon-light "ladder" marking the end of Run way No. 1 (east-west). Pilot Scott was a little high, perhaps by miscalculation, perhaps by design. Flight 6, down to around 300 feet, zipped west over the runway, made a gentle turn to the left. It looked as if Scott had decided to circle...
...Harvard professor than a Hollywood fire chief. (He does teach first aid to many faculty members and university employees in evening classes.) Reminiscing about the day in 1908 when Chelsea burnt down or showing his souvenirs from the time when every Cambridge householder was required to possess one ladder and two leather buckets for the bucket brigade, Chief Gutheim points out that in the 41 years of fire fighting which he can remember Cambridge has always been rated A-1 by the underwriters. This has been accomplished "despite what we have to work with"; namely, an almost brand...
...accepted the surprise nomination of the well-oiled National Revolutionary Party machine, on a platform of "Panamanian nationalism." Shunted off to the directorship of the Department of Sanitation after leading Panama's first and only revolution, dark-eyed, Harvard-trained Physician Arias had been started up the diplomatic ladder by his brother Harmodio. Harmodio was elected President in 1932, sent Arnulfo as Minister to Berlin, then to Rome. Last year he was Minister to Great Britain and France. Still political small fry, only 38 years old, and accused of Fascist inclinations after his Axis appointments, Arnulfo had hardly been...
...fornication and bastardy) courtroom, he tore up sketch after sketch, exclaimed: "I can't cover that wall with bastards." Finally he painted panels relating to a child's security: an adopted bootblack; a foster father playing with a child; another helping a child up a ladder; a child trotting to school...
...heads," she said, "we were in the water. When we tried to sit up we were blown down again by the wind. . . . When we found the warship we all stood up and cheered and shouted for the good old British Navy. The Navy men helped us up a rope ladder -first an arm and then a leg-and I could not help thinking how funny it was. The sailors gave us rum to drink. It was horrible stuff, but I suppose it did us good." Already safe aboard the destroyer was the fourth member of the family, her four-year...