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...pylon. He was not badly hurt. Chicago had hard luck. It had counted on Balbo's armada and the Spanish Flyers Barberan & Collar (TIME. June 29, July 3) to lend tone to the opening. But Balbo was in Amsterdam and the Spaniards were dead in Mexico. Then a rainstorm cancelled the Sunday program. Before a capacity crowd next day Johnny Livingston, credited with winning more races than any other living pilot, added $2.250 to his two-year total of $56.000 by nosing out Art Davis, another crack racer, for the Baby Ruth Trophy. He whipped his flaming yellow Cessna...
...Glens Falls, N. Y., Harry Caswell, handcuffed to the wheel of an automobile in a 100-hour driving endurance test, drove into a barn to avoid a rainstorm. The backfire of his motor set ten tons of hay ablaze. As the flames licked at his clothes, he picked the lock of his manacles with a hairpin, escaped...
Early one evening last week a heavy rainstorm drenched New Jersey. At the Passaic Home & Orphan Asylum, six boys -Jacob Merlnizek, John Murdock, Douglas Fleming, Rudolph Borsche' Frank & Michael Mazzola, all between 11 and 15-were worried. Maybe their baseball field was washing away. They cunningly approached their matron. Didn't she want to know if the rain had damaged her garden? She did. She said they might go out if they were careful to put on raincoats and rubbers. A quick look at the garden showed that it was all right. Closer inspection of the baseball diamond...
Forced into the Cage during yesterday afternoon's heavy rainstorm, the Varsity squad worked out until 5 o'clock, but without Coach Casey, who went down to New York to attend a dinner at the Harvard Club last evening...
...married life of Eastern Orthodox Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria and Roman Catholic Giovanna of Italy, which began in a violent rainstorm at Assist (TIME, Nov. 3) continued its hectic course last week...