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...other motor out of commission from a backfire, the ungainly Vickers Virginia X bomber wallowed heavily 2,000 ft. over Surrey. While Pilot Gully fought to right the ship, four members of the crew crawled obediently back to the tail, bailed out one by one, jerked their parachute rip cords, floated peacefully earthwards. All but Aircraftsman Lewis (who broke his leg) landed safely. Flying Officer Page, the assistant pilot, stood by until the crippled bomber sank to 200 ft., then went overside. His parachute opened, but failed to check his plunge to death...
...RIP TIDE-William Rose Benét-Dujfield & Green...
Even an unexacting reader will notice unusually prosy bits in Rip Tide, such as . . . Barry, hailed to the court, Tried some tennis. A couple drove...
...reader may also wonder why Poet Benét likes such stumbling-block words as: corsive, accipitrine. mort. On the whole he will probably find Rip Tide moving, though more pathetic than...
...Wall Street last week was being circulated, as a joke, a table of figures which made investors wince. It told of a Rip van Winkle who in August 1929 sold ten shares of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe at $298!, putting the $2,986.25 in a savings bank. Recently he bought back his ten Atchison for $350. With the additional money he bought ten shares in each of 85 well-known companies, such as Baltimore & Ohio, Erie, Wabash, Anaconda Copper, Baldwin Locomotive, United Cigar, Kreuger & Toll, Curtiss-Wright, Republic Steel. He still had left $8.75 to buy a haircut, a shave...