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...reach south from Anchorage was a confident pilot with 365 hours logged. Taking her 11-year-old son to Washington, D.C. to school, Frances Lintner, 38, had set out to follow the Alaska Highway to Edmonton. Skittering along under low clouds just short of Fort Nelson, she mistook a logging road for the highway, crashed into 4,000-ft. Steamboat Mountain. She was killed. Desperately injured and pinned half upside down in the wreckage, Michael Lintner somehow lived through 40 hours until rescuers reached...
...those of you who happened to drop into the reception room of the TIME & LIFE Building a few weeks ago and, perhaps, mistook it for a grocery store or a bargain basement, the following explanation is probably overdue. At any rate, the reception room looks that way only once a year...
From his relatively safe vantage point he observed a local constable, whom he first mistook for a 250 pound Notre Dame fullback, put an affectionate hand on the shoulder of his less timorous roommate and ask, in what he termed a somewhat persuasive manner...
...Hindu like most Indian businessmen, did not dare try to recover them. Baker located a bearer who was a Christian and helped load the back copies of TIME into a truck himself. Later, the bearer, "a likeable, inoffensive little chap," was kidnapped by a band of Moslems who mistook him for a Hindu and wanted to kill him. He finally convinced them that he was a Roman Catholic by showing his crucifix and answering some questions about the Bible put by a mission-bred Moslem...
...Beaten to Death." At the Heavenly Voice studio they first mistook a bobbed-haired girl performer for Little Happiness, chased and lost her in a nearby theater. Then they turned on the studio itself-breaking equipment and furniture until the police arrived and nabbed ten of the gang. Still smarting, they marched to Little Happiness' home, on Yunnan Road, climbed up to his second-story flat, slapped his wife. But of the thin, sharp face of Little Happiness they found not so much as a smirk. He was elsewhere, in hiding...