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Blind flight still remains a source of great peril to aviators. Brooks Hyde Pearson, air mail pilot, up in a blinding snowstorm, crashed into trees high up in the Alleghany Mountains. A farmer of Curwensville, Pa., saw the plane in distress, heard the crash and at daylight found the burnt remains of plane and pilot after several hours' search. Pearson had in his plane the usual flying instruments, totally insufficient in snow, fog or violent rain. Fortunately, the Army Air Service is aware of this serious problem in air navigation. Last week Eugene H. Barksdale (lieutenant) and Bradley Jones...
Several years ago the imminence of this peril. Mr. Forbes said, was realized and much research work has been done by him and others in this country in an effort to find a remedy...
...capacity of an Administration?or at least of three great departments of it?to discharge the high duties imposed upon it?yea, more, the peril of permitting a party to select men for such places. This Teapot Dome is a crucible in which a great political organization shall be tested, and it is found to be dross. That is the reason the elephant trembles from trunk to tail...
...GARDEN OF PERIL?Cynthia Stockley?Putnam ($2.00). Peril is in this case the heroine. She is a heroine, too, of the old school, a back-to-nature heroine, against a background of curious African vegetation. Into Peril's Rhodesian garden come two swashbuckling gentlemen of fortune. Their names, respectively, are Punch Heseltine, Major of Mounted Police, and Pam Heseltine, his cousin. Unhappily, Pam has permitted himself the luxurious indiscretion of a wife, who turns out to be a beguiling, insidious dabbler in the subtler sorceries. The book oscillates from the fragrance of the veldt, to moments of acute excitement, particularly...
...work of the organization speaks for itself; the names of the men who serve upon its Advisory Committee add whatever weight is necessary to make up its great prestige. The necessary thing is to convey some how to the undergraduate body the conditions of students in Europe and the peril in which European education now lies. A perusal of the interviews which have appeared and are appearing in the CRIMSON should give some idea of the need for help. In fact anyone who has read anything within the last few years can scarcely remain in doubt upon this point...