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He fell on a heap of dirty snow. Passersby stopped, turned, and saw him then; a thin, black-haired man lying broken and dying. The curious gathered, and with them blue-overcoated policemen. Then an ambulance nosed up.
In terse, cautious messages, the Air Force pumped out the bare details of one failure after another. Battling 100-m.p.h. winds and 40-below-zero temperatures, the rescuers could not even get started for three days. When they did, the B-17 swerved out of control as it swooped down...
Fine Opportunity. Nevertheless, Murray's action came as a shock to Wolchok and Altman, who had hoped for aid and sympathy from Murray, not liquidation. Murray's order did not dissolve Wolchok's union; Sam would be allowed to hang on to as many of his members...
Died. Sir C. (for Charles) Aubrey Smith, 85, hawk-nosed, patrician stage & screen character actor (Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Four Feathers, Lloyds of London); in Beverly Hills, Calif. A onetime champion cricketer, Smith never gave up his British citizenship in more than 20 years in the U.S., was knighted...
Died. Robert Stephen Briffault, 72, hawk-nosed novelist, anthropologist and World War I surgeon; of tuberculosis; in Sussex, England (where he recently arrived after a 20-year self-imposed exile in France). A British-born Anglophobe, Briffault left medicine for the social sciences, in 1927 writing The Mothers, an exhaustive...