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...Delmar Jackson's The Cut of the Axe; Rocco Fumento's Devil by the Tail; S. Leonard Rubenstein's World, Barbed Wire; Eugene Brown's Trespass; Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood; and Oakley Hall's Corpus of Joe Bailey...
Said Pilot Philip Blown, a veteran of the Royal Australian Air Force and one of the rescued: "The fighters stayed on our tail and took turns spraying the fuselage. They shot us down with the intention of killing us. When they got too near for good shooting, they throttled back and then began firing again...
Boeing took its new plane to demonstrate to Army Air Corps brass at Wright Field in Dayton. With an Army pilot in the cockpit, and Boeing's Chief Test Pilot Leslie Tower aboard, Boeing's 6-17 took off. But the pilot was unaware that the tail surfaces had a lock to keep them from being buffeted by the wind when on the ground. With the controls locked, the plane took off, lurched over on one wing, crashed and burned. Both Tower and the Army flyer were killed. Boeing collected $350,000 in insurance, but Douglas, with...
...robbed. He has a mountain boy's distrust of revenuers-in his case, Internal Revenuers, who visit him regularly. Sam gets nervous whenever he sees a story about his wealth: "You know, every time they read a story about me they clip it." The Little Dog's Tail. Last week, as he packed his bags for Baltusrol, Sam Snead seemed at peak form. The warm West Virginia sun and hot sulphur baths had relaxed him. Ten days of practice, drivBEN HOGAN Before sunup, an old bogey...
...game." After a practice round at Baltusrol this week, though, Snead himself was cautiously pessimistic. "This baby is real tough," he gloomed. But at Augusta last March, after beating Hogan, he sang a different tune: "The sun don't always shine on the same little dog's tail." For Golfer Snead's tail, it had been a long wait for sunup...