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...PYLON-William Faulkner-Smith & Haas...
William Faulkner's latest fairy tale about the human race contains no bogeyman, but as usual his protagonists have their hearts in the wrong place. Tacit thesis of Pylon is that airmen are not people, but a race apart, unaccountable, sinister, inhuman. "They ain't human like us. . . . Crash one and it ain't even blood when you haul him out; it's cylinder oil the same as in the crankcase." Though Author Faulkner obviously admires his creatures, they will seem to most readers less god-like than monstrous. But those who can manage to skip...
Died. Mrs. Frances Harrell Marsalis, 29, stunt flyer, holder with Helen Richey of the women's refueling endurance record; when her airplane crashed rounding a pylon in a 50-mile race at the Dayton National Women's Air Meet; in Vandalia, Ohio...
...about 500 ft. when his left wing suddenly dropped off. The little red racer rolled over, dove cock-pit-deep into a cornfield. The fabric ripped from a wing of the yellow-&-red G. B. racer as Florence E. Klingensmith, 26, of Minneapolis was driving it around a pylon. The plane tottered into a ravine throwing Miss Klingensmith to death in sight of the grandstands...
Long after the applause died down, a muttering arose from the judges' stand. Pilot Turner, the other contestants, judges, timers, umpires were called into huddle. Had Turner cut inside a distant pylon? He readily admitted that he had, to avoid smacking into Wedell. But on his next lap he had circled that pylon twice (as witnesses saw) and still won by more than a mile. Nevertheless, said the judges, pylons are pylons and rules are rules. Prize money, trophy, title were taken from Turner, handed to Wedell...