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Captain McMillen didn't make it. The big plane, last seen in flight by a deer hunter who reported that its undersides were aflame and that it was dropping unidentifiable objects, managed to skim over the precipitous wall of a canyon. But then, just 1,500 yards short of the airstrip, it crashed, churned 300 feet up a sage-covered slope, exploded and disintegrated. Nobody survived; nobody could have. Among those who died: Jack Guenther, managing editor of Look; Pro Footballer Jeff Burkett, Chicago Cardinals' halfback; Gerard B. Lambert Jr., scion of a famed drug dynasty (see MILESTONES...
...toggle switch. He seems to hit a baseball on the dead run. Once in motion, he wobbles along, elbows flying, hips swaying, shoulders rocking-creating the illusion that he will fly to pieces with every stride. But once he gains momentum, his shoulders come to order and his feet skim along like flying fish. He is not only jackrabbit fast, but about one thought and two steps ahead of every base-runner in the business. He beats out bunts, stretches singles into doubles. Once Jackie made second on a base-on-balls; he saw that the catcher had lost...
...milk producers in the six-state New York milkshed, made no bones about having done the job. Reason: the league wanted to "protect" farmers from a drop in milk prices, which, under a Federal-State marketing formula, are largely determined by butter prices. (The combined average of butter and skim-milk prices for the 30 days ending December 24 had to be over $1 to keep prices...
Like other rough mysteries, war is something the wits of The Little Group would prefer to skim or skip. When it comes, some of them foam with the "war hysteria" they used to deride. Their self-assured little world, fissured anyway with snobberies, jealousies and plots, goes to pieces. As Harvard overflows with V-12s in training, Dorothea's libertine of 1923 shows up rich and flashy in a Navy uniform. As the ensuing chapters unreel, the reader may think that Miss Howe's heroine is being loaded with the wartime experiences of a dozen women rather than...
...trial in Reggio Emilia last week Poetess Leonarda gripped the witness-stand rail with oddly delicate hands and calmly set the prosecutor right on certain details. Her deep-set dark eyes gleamed with a wild inner pride as she concluded: "I gave the copper ladle, which I used to skim the fat off the kettles, to my country, which was so badly in need of metal during the last days...