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...being struck by lightning and a few cases of minor damage to heavier-than-air craft. But, says that onetime naval commander, "the probability of serious effect of lightning on modern metal airplanes is extremely remote because of sharp points permitting the charge to drain off." According to Secretary Lester Durand Gardner of the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences, which held its third annual meeting last week in Manhattan, the destructive effect of lightning on an all-metal plane in flight is "unthinkable...
...joined the Royal Northwest Mounted Police. His professional hockey career started in 1926 when he signed up with the New York Rangers. The next season it nearly ended when, in the playoffs for the Stanley Cup, a flying puck cut his eye. The Rangers' manager, Lester Patrick, playing goal for the first time in his life, finished the game in Chabot's place, helped his team...
...This particular adaptation of the Russian narrative is no less sombre than its predecessors. As Raskolnikoff, the impoverished student who murders a woman pawnbroker with the mad idea that money stolen from her will right a number of wrongs, Morgan Farley is about as wretched a figure as "Ma" Lester, the itinerant dustbin of Tobacco Road. Actor Farley rolls his eyes in terror, clenches his palms, bellows fearfully when his conscience begins to get the better of him. He evidently enjoys his part best of all in the final scene of confession in the park...
Last year it was Henri Cochet and Ellsworth Vines. Last week William Tatem Tilden II and his promoter William O'Brien had a new attraction for their annual tennis tour: the ''best doubles team in the world," George Lott & Lester Stoefen...
...bill, discovered that it gave Long power to hire & fire all the State's 15,000 schoolteachers. Said the unabashed Kingfish: "Aw, that ain't nothing. That ain't no new power. But the bill provoked a New England-born, hitherto mouse-quiet Representative named Lester to supply the only fireworks of the session. While Huey Long, wearing a pink shirt and a broad grin, lolled on the Speaker's dais, Representative Lester shouted: "I feel outraged and dishonored as a citizen and an official of Louisiana. . . . We, as Legislators, are called upon to take from...