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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Copy of a higher grade was made at James Island, where historically-minded Franklin Roosevelt, poring over Commander David Porter's Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean (1813), ordered a search (unsuccessful) for the grave of Lieut. John S. Cowan of Porter's frigate Essex, who died there in a pistol duel...
...Francisco, flew into a storm, disappeared. Three months later, Prospector H. O. Collier came upon its wreckage, strewn over a Sierra Nevada mountainside. The plane had been smashed to bits, but its tail had caught in a tree, hung high as a dead goose. The weeks of fruitless search for this and other lost planes have piled added horror on the original disaster, added worry and heavy expense for airline operators...
...Clipper could have dropped the oil to smooth the sea for an emergency landing, then drifted off out of sight of the Meigs. But at the end of the week, though army bombers and navy destroyers and submarines kept up the weary search, the subject in the minds of most airmen was closed. The Clipper was a 26-ton Martin 130, built for Pan American's transpacific route in 1935. Trim and seaworthy, she could ride out rough weather as easily as a small yacht. She had four watertight bulkheads. She carried rubber inflatable boats, a stock of small...
...search for the toxicologist begins in a bar, where they start drinking on empty stomachs, continues via other bars, where they pick up strange stories of the toxicologist's victims. They get involved with drunks, with the toxicologist's servants, with the wife and child of a man sentenced to life imprisonment on the toxicologist's evidence. Meantime, Wilt reels off his unwritten stories, long since ignoring poor Bernie, who whimpers because Wilt won't stop to eat, because he has been seduced and because he has lost his money. Unfortunately, the comic side of this...
That's me all over, thought each of the 125 jobhunters who last week answered advertisements for an "Honest man with moral qualifications wanted to play the part of Sir Galahad." The man in search of a Galahad was Franciscan Patrick Mc-Carthy of St. Christopher's Inn, Graymoor. N. Y. Chosen Galahad, after two hours of auditions and soul searchings, was 17-year-old Business-Schoolboy Ralph Welliver...