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Like Sohn's in principle, Davis' wings resembled a moth's rather than a bat's. Fastened to his hips by hinges, they were rigid, oval-shaped, flat, with small ailerons at the tips controlled by handgrips. No webbing was sewn between Davis' legs. Instead he had them bound together, with a small moth-like tail-wing fastened to each ankle. In compliance with Federal regulations, he wore two parachutes-one for emergency in case the other failed to open...
...will clique together on the campus, "come out" during their college careers. The rest will be mostly healthy, normal girls from well-to-do U. S. homes. Their campus appearance lately prompted the Bryn Mawr College News to declare: "Clothes might be sent to the cleaners, buttons might be sewn on and hair might be brushed without any serious reflection being cast on the Bryn Mawr intellect...
Aboard S. S. Roma, Sicily-bound out of New York, Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie, assaultee in Honolulu's great 1932 rape case, divorced two months ago, slashed both her wrists with a razorblade, moaned: "I wanted to die." Sewn up, she was hospitalized, landed at Genoa. Hospitalized ashore, she smiled at her doctor: "I am going to die. You may stop me now. But I will show you. I might cut my wrists again...
...striking miners (see p. 12). He left to General Johnson the task of opening the NRA "Buy Now" campaign, while Mrs. Roosevelt and daughter started a little recovery campaign of their own by promising to accept from a Manhattan manufacturer the first two ladies' coats with NRA tags sewn in them, to prove they were stitched under the coat & suit code...
Last week when the League of Nations was almost ready to arbitrate, General Kundt's mines were entirely finished. His sappers, tunneling under the Paraguayan positions, had sewn them thick with dynamite. To England, France, Italy, Spain and Mexico the League dispatched requests that each appoint an arbiter, announced that the arbitral board would be constituted within ten days. General Kundt was quicker than that. Bram! went his mines. The earth heaved. Paraguayan soldiers were lofted into the air like so many clods...