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...Suddenly, just after the big transport had drummed some 25 ft. above the highway . . ., there was a rending crack! whop! smash! as the ship slammed full tilt into a pine power pole, as the motors ripped out and fell and the rest of the plane bashed into a palmetto thicket...
...south end of the field, there were three rending crashes, whop! when the ship slammed full-tilt into a foot-thick pine power pole, crack! when the motors ripped out and thudded to earth, and smash! when the rest of the stricken plane bashed into a palmetto thicket...
...south end of the field, there were three rending crashes, whop! when the ship slammed full-tilt into a foot-thick pine power pole, crack! when the motors ripped out and thudded to earth, and smash! when the rest of the stricken plane bashed into a palmetto thicket. There was a spurt of flame from one motor, then silence...
Called The Hunt, the Gropper picture is a sombre scene in deep yellows. Armed men and dogs are coursing through a scrubby thicket under a hill. The grim haste of the figures plainly implies that The Hunt's quarry is Man. Explained Artist Gropper: "I felt the irony of the hunt-the sportsman's equal pleasure in hunting game and hunting Negroes-and I decided to commit it to paint...
...morning last week Gordon Morrow, 19, was hunting rabbits on a snow covered trail of cut-over land 50 miles north of Tacoma. Following rabbit tracks he cut through an alder thicket, stumbled over something. It was the naked body of a small boy, with head bashed in, lying stiff and frozen in the snow. Hunter Morrow rushed home, told his father. The local sheriff and his deputies came, examined the body lying 200 feet from a highway, studied fresh tire tracks and footprints, decided the child had been murdered elsewhere and been dumped there the night before...