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...waterfront, waving a yellow paper. It was a warning of gales on the course east to Copenhagen, where the flyers were about to complete their survey of a subarctic air mail route from the U. S. (TIME, Aug. 17). Officials signaled frantically to Cramer & Pacquette but the former mistook the gestures for farewells, circled the town, flew away over the ocean. The storm broke, a hurricane, driving surface craft to cover. A Swedish radio station heard a faint "Hello, hello, hello" in English, but the plane was not seen again. Days later the crew of a trawler sighted the body...
...Manhattan automobile editor was blindfolded last week, taken for four rides. Three times he guessed the number of cylinders in the car. On the fourth ride he mistook a four for an eight. Happy over his error were the officials of the third biggest U. S. motor company...
Karl Arthur was a bright young man and should have been a credit to the ministry, but he was headstrong and impulsive, and time and again mistook fanatical hunches for divine inspiration. To mortify his pride (and incidentally punish Charlotte) he married Anna, who was beautiful, but only a peasant peddler-girl. Anna was pleased as punch, and quite ready to love her handsome husband, but he wanted them to live like brother & sister. She got over that fence all right, but when she discovered Karl Arthur's platonic friendship with the organist's wife, shy Thea, Anna...
Mexico. In the course of air maneuvers from Mexico's famed Valbuena Airport last week, a cardboard village was erected as a target for bombers. Mexican aviators mistook the town of Ixtapalapa for the target, blew up the ranch "El Arenal," the Ixtapalapa Light and Power Co., killed one, wounded...
Returning, they sought Herbert Cameron, mistook and beat another Negro. Their ardor abated, they placed Shipp's body by Smith's, watched them all night...