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From a ranch in California's Romero Canyon last week, dark-haired, nine-year-old Marylynn Winkler watched the flight of a glider-towing plane. Suddenly the plane seemed to "break up in mid-air." Marylynn hurried over five miles of mountain and streams, found an injured Army sergeant and private. (Two others were dead.) In the mountain wilderness, Marylynn built a fire to keep the soldiers warm, stood by for five hours until the ambulance arrived. Then she found sapling poles for stretchers. Said Marylynn: "I just couldn't leave them alone and hurt like that." Said...
Breaking its tie for the league lead with Winthrop, the Leverett House football team defeated the Puritans 7 to 0 Tuesday afternoon under very windy playing conditions. Scoring honors went to Dick Jason, who caught a Winthrop fumble in mid-air and ran 40 yards for the only score. Ted Brooks converted...
...R.A.F. Coastal Command believed at first that the gremlins climbed aboard in mid-air from the wings of sea gulls. It is generally believed now, however, that the gremlins have wings on their shoulders, but, if so, the wings are invisible in photographs (see cut). One school of thought favors vertical-lift propellers on each shoulder. The Coastal Command learned that gremlins love to punch holes in pontoons, jab pilots in the back when they are too busy to scratch, or drink up all the gasoline except just enough to make a landing...
...picture itself might well have been directed by three different men with three different interpretations of its content, and written by at least as many more confused individuals. It takes what could have been an interesting if not too plausible psychological problem, and then leaves it daugling in mid-air. All of this ends in the fatal error of misleading the audience without letting them know they're being misled, and the net result is Hollywood at its most chaotic. For sheer inconsistency of character, plot, and theme, "Crossroads" will be a tough one to beat...
...this point, Joe wonders whether to explore the circular staircase ahead which seems to hang in mid-air, or to investigate the Exhibition Room on his left, or the Reading Room on his right. Choosing the former course, he encounters a souvenir stand where sight-seers might buy some postcards. Nearby is a warm-up kitchen for occasional tea parties...