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West Coast of Florida: Dec. 22. Dinner at 7:30 p.m., Thomas D. Bolles, speaker, at the St. Petersburg Yacht Club. Joseph M. Panjello 301.4 Wallace S. Bldg Annex, Tampa, Fla.; Worcester, Mass.: Dec. 29. 6:30 p.m. Judson Shaplin and Henry Lamar, speakers. Putnam and Thurston's, 29 Mechanics St. Lewis Wald, 54 Rockdale...
Captain Adam G. Meister Jr. of St. Petersburg, Fla., a medical officer, had hooked up with jumpers on the right side of the plane when a red light flashed the five-minute warning earlier in the flight. But as the plane pitched in the backwash of planes ahead, he felt airsick, reached up, unhooked his chute from the static line and sat down. His chute or pack caught in the bucket seat. He sat, struggling but immovable, as the abandon-ship bell shrilled, as his fellow jumpers tumbled out, and as the plane crashed...
...North's best chances was lost at the battle of the Crater, outside Petersburg, the last defense post for Richmond. A bright young colonel on General Burnside's staff thought up the idea of digging a 500-ft. tunnel under the Confederates key redoubt, blowing it up and running a ground attack through the breach. The tunnel was dug, 320 kegs of powder were planted, and after a misfiring fuse was relit, the earth flew up, as one soldier wrote, like "a waterspout as seen at sea." A gap 500 yards wide opened in the Confederate line...
...tried to fly?out of the sheer love of risking their necks in public. Sikorsky was a young gentleman and an embryo intellectual; his father, a physician, was famed in Russia as a psychologist, and Igor had put in three years at the Imperial Naval College in St. Petersburg, and two more at the Institute of Technology at Kiev. He was not abashed, however, as he walked through the long grass at the edge of Juvisy airfield, outside Paris, and took his first look into the temple of the flying machine...
...Thomson expanded rapidly. Frequently, he didn't even see the paper he was buying, based his decision on its balance sheet. He likes to say: "There's nothing in this business that a few thousand dollars of ad sales can't cure." He bought the St. Petersburg Independent because "I want something to keep me busy while I'm down there vacationing...