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...into a severe snowstorm. Inept like most European airmen at blind flying, he got lost, circled through the murk while the radioman sent out an SOS. Before he could get his bearings, the pilot scraped his wing on a fir tree, smacked full tilt into the side of Mont du Beaujolais, killed everyone but the radioman, who crawled two miles through the snow for help. To England the news was as shocking as the crash of the China Clipper would...
...three daughters of a druggist in Silver Bow, Mont., Louise was most beautiful, Grace most domestic, Helen most electric. Louise was one of nature's noblewomen and great things were expected of her, so when she eloped with a hard-drinking sports writer, Silver Bow was shocked. After many an up & down, Louise's husband left her, shipped as a sailor the night before the San Francisco earthquake. The shock and the quake combined gave Louise brain fever. A friendly floozy took her in, and she recuperated in a bawdy house. Then she married a rich...
...Manhattan last week Missionaries said that their messages had reached a total of 1,000,000 people. Biggest per capita turn-out for their meetings was in Billings, Mont. (pop. 20,000) where police daily counted 2,000 to 3,000 automobiles and some 8,000 people on the fair grounds where the Mission set up camp. The Mayor of Omaha proclaimed a minute of silence on two of the mornings the preaching team was present. In Seattle 8,000 people crowded the Civic Auditorium while 5,000 were turned away. In Chicago 30,000 attended a series of meetings...
...Michigan and Wisconsin. As in the East, the favorite tree is the luxuriant and fragrant balsam fir, with spruce, still considered the only real Christmas tree in the South, a bad second. Exclusive with Gust Relias are colored Christmas trees, sprayed green or silver at his shipping point, Eureka, Mont...
...just-born baby whom he is briskly slapping into mundane consciousness. Caption: "Life Begins." First LIFE feature, Franklin Roosevelt's Wild West, showed how WPA workers disport themselves in frontier style in the bars and dance halls of the new-hatched towns of New Deal and Wheeler, Mont., where the vast Fort Peck Dam project is under way. Prize shot: A pile of tangled wire dumped outside a rooming house, captioned, "The only idle bedsprings in 'New Deal' are the broken ones." Dispatched to the Northwest for some of her famed construction shots, Photographer Margaret Bourke-White...