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...illegitimate children. "Drunk census takers and bad penmanship can drive you insane!" says Rawlings, the Florida real estate broker. Lorraine St-Louis-Harrison, a Canadian genealogist, had a hard time tracing her French-speaking grandfather until she realized that an English census taker had transcribed St Louis as "Salway." Likewise, immigrants disembarking at Ellis Island found their names arbitrarily Anglicized. And some families, wanting to assimilate, did so later on their...
...courses rely more on assigned reading than on their half-hour TV programs, which are designed to maintain a high level of interest among stay-at-home students. Chatty, first-person handbooks, specially written for the course by such noted teachers as Oxford Historian J.P.V.D. Balsdon and Archaeologist Peter Salway, a regional director of the Open University, guide students in their reading of original source material. On page 44 of one handbook, for instance, Balsdon notes briskly, "I cannot imagine your having the time" to read all 77 pages on the Emperor Augustus, but he adds: "One document, however...
Sergeant Dennis Smith, R.A.F., stood in the doorway of his burning bomber and looked down on northern Holland. Behind him in the plane lay his friend, Flight Sergeant Ernest Salway, badly wounded, his parachute burned. Smith knew his parachute was built to carry 250 pounds, knew that two men with equipment weigh nearly twice as much. But, hoisting his wounded friend onto his back, he jumped. The chute snapped open, held-but Smith lost his grip on his friend, saw him plummet to his death. When Smith floated down to earth, he was taken prisoner. Last week, for a brave...
...hour and a half later, groping blindly through the pea-soup atmosphere over Jersey City, narrowly missing rooftops. Pilot John Salway saw a chance to land in a meadow, saw too late the wires that marked it as the county's 200-acre power plant. A wingtip sheared a 132,000-volt wire. A flash, a crash, a geyser of flaming gasoline ended the episode...
Electrocuted or burned to death: Pilot Salway; Count Henri de la Vaulx, pioneer airman, President of Federation Aeronautique Internationale; Mrs. Mary E. Gallagher Williams of Providence, R. I.: Arthur V. Conklin of Huntington...
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