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...have come back from their missions looking like flying junk shops (see cut). One of them flew into a trap of cables strung between two peaks. The cables tore off both wing tip tanks and cut into the spar in the leading edge of the wing. They sheared off the left wing tip and 20 inches of the aileron. But the pilot climbed to 30,000 feet and got home, landing at 170 m.p.h. and taxiing up to the line under his own power. "It takes almost a direct hit by heavy antiaircraft," said one pilot, "to bring down...
...last autumn's ferns lay Paddy snoring ... a web strung from one lock of hair back onto the sill above . . . Caught in the reflection of spring sunlight this cobweb looked to be made of gold as did those others which by working long minutes spiders had drawn from spar to spar of the fern bedding on which his head rested. It might have been almost that O'Conor's dreams were held by hairs of gold binding his head beneath a vaulted roof on which the floor of cobbles reflected an old king's molten treasure...
...charging that five Martin 2023 which it had bought in 1947-48 were defective. The wing of one of them, said Northwest, "tore off in flight," during a storm, killing 36 passengers and crewmen near Winona, Minn., last Aug. 29. Another 202 broke a wing spar the same day but landed safely...
Romantic Gesture. One of the "alien spouses" turned out to be a husband-a displaced Hungarian photographer named Gabor Rona who had married an ex-SPAR named Blossom Bernstein. Then there was Elisabeth Albinus, a pretty German girl whose ex-sergeant boy friend walked out on her two hours after she arrived at Idlewild Airport. Lissome Elisabeth got her picture in the tabloids, received at least one offer of adoption, 50, proposals and a free English course from the Linguaphone Institute of America...
...Zivic, as a master of the art of the foil, is able to spar his way out of physical harm's way. But in so doing, he leaves a trail of dissatisfied fans behind. ... He has had more than his day in the ring and his honored name can only be tarnished by a continuance of his present performances. ..." A Zivic fight in Tampa was called...