Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...occupants. It was the worst airline accident in U.S. history-but there was a worse one before the sun had set again. Next evening a Florida-bound Eastern Airlines DC-4, stricken by structural failure, plunged out of a sunlit sky into a Maryland bog, and the lives of the 53 passengers and crew were snuffed out in the twinkling...
Above the green woods and fields of Maryland the sunny, early evening sky was cloudless and clear. From their DC-3, Civil Aeronautics Board inspectors watched Eastern Airlines' Miami-bound plane pass their slower craft and wing majestically down the airway to the south. The CABmen were flying back to Washington from LaGuardia Field after investigating the worst disaster in the history of U.S. civil aviation (see below). The plane that had just passed was doomed to figure in an even more horrible...
...virtual social recluse for several years after his first wife died, McCormick has mellowed and relaxed since December 1944, when he married his neighbor and onetime tenant, gay and gracious Mrs. Maryland Mathison Hooper. Last year he joined the Wheaton First Presbyterian Church, and plunged into an enthusiastic study of Presbyterian theology. Nowadays at Cantigny there are movies and a buffet on Friday nights, and the Colonel and his lady take frequent flying jaunts in his well-appointed Lockheed Lodestar. At his party last Christmas night (complete with boar's head and singers from WGN), he unbent...
...Baltimore, a motorized column of University of Maryland students staged a night attack on Johns Hopkins University. Provocation: the kidnapping of a 400-lb. bronze terrapin from the University of Maryland campus. The invaders had to battle through barbed-wire entanglements and streams from fire hoses, were foiled when they got into the main dormitory-the defenders had covered the floors with a slippery mixture of soap chips and water...
...Maryland too had its horse race of the year. The Preakness (second of racing's Big Three for three-year-olds) offered new proof that in 1947 there are four of them who stand out above all the rest, but not yet above each other. The horses that finished one-two-three-four in the Preakness (Faultless, On Trust, Phalanx and Jet Pilot) had finished three-four-two-one in the Kentucky Derby. Faultless' $98,005 Preakness purse was the biggest ever won by a three-year-old. Next: the Belmont Stakes...