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...time Pilot J. Nelson Pell was over Boston, on a charter flight from Montreal, it was past midnight. The weather had closed down. For more than an hour, Pilot Pell, a veteran of 7,000 hours of transport flying, flew about in the woolly dark with his three passengers-Thomas Mandell, treasurer of Boston's Carrier-Mandell Inc. (airconditioning) and Mandell's two daughters. At 2:21 a.m., he started to descend. Below him as his little Stinson got near the ground, was a row of lights...
...soft chimney a few feet from the top, disintegrated, threw one body between the chimney's two walls and hurled the others into the pilot flame at the bottom of the pit. Workmen reached through trap doors with steel hooks to draw the bodies of Nelson Pell and his passengers from the fire...
...transmitter with odds & ends from a ham set, a few parts scrounged from Army discards and about $100 worth of equipment that he bought himself. He talked Sergeant Jack Willis into being the station's announcer because Willis, a Nova Scotian, could pronounce Eskimo names like "Plluluk" (pronounced Pell-oo-look) without a bobble. Last winter they set up their equipment in the second floor of Aklavik's Signals Station, and by December they were broadcasting with 30-watt power on 1,230 kilocycles. They did so well that last week they had a broadcasting license...
Died. Stanley Grafton Mortimer, 56, socially prominent, internationally famed amateur racquets star, thrice winner of the coveted Tuxedo Gold Racquet, four times national champion, nine times national doubles champion (with Clarence C. Pell), recognized as one of the top six U.S. racquets players of all time; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Five teams will represent each House when the season gets underway next week. There will be competition in rowing, tennis, baseball, golf, and softball, with the Agassiz Crew Cup, the C. C. Pell Tennis Bowl, and the McCall Trophy in baseball awaiting the victors in those sports...