Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, bedded in Presbyterian Hospital reading a detective-story magazine, Drugstore Messenger Jacob Bastocky, 22, was startled to see the picture of an escaped criminal named Joseph Martin whose face he at once spotted two beds away. Keen-eyed Bastocky calmly rang for an orderly who glanced at the magazine photograph and Patient Martin, summoned police...
...rainy morning last week two groups of newshawks arrived at Los Angeles' Union Air Terminal in Burbank. One group came to greet famed Explorers Martin and Osa Johnson, due at 10:45 on a Western Air Express plane from Salt Lake City. The other group came to witness the first demonstration of a new radio navigation device developed by Transcontinental & Western Air and just installed in all its planes. The new contrivance, everyone was told, permitted a pilot to find an airport no matter how dirty the weather. TWA's Chief Pilot O. W. Coyle took off with...
...Martin Johnson had risked many of the world's perils. A runaway at 14, he went to Europe on a cattle boat, returned as a stowaway, then shipped as a seaman on Jack London's Snark. Returning to the U. S., he married 16-year-old Osa Leighty, set off with her on 25 years of exploring, much of it in their own planes. Last week they were back from Borneo jungles for one of their periodic lecture tours. At Salt Lake City he remarked to newshawks: "America, probably because it is the most civilized place...
...plane, Pilot Lewis regained his senses, dragged himself, gun in hand, to guard the mail. Two passengers revived unhurt, began aiding the others. Stewardess Esther Jo Connor, despite a broken ankle, did what she could for her passengers, all but two of whom were severely injured, one dead. Martin Johnson, with both jaws broken, skull cracked, a shattered hip and internal wounds, became hysterical with pain. Osa, with leg broken and a concussion, was able only to wipe his face. Rescuers struggling up the mountain heard his screams afar. The plane was almost intact, with one motor torn loose. Nearby...
...Died. Martin Johnson, 52, famed African explorer; of injuries received in a Western Air Express crash; in Los Angeles...