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...unquestionably the best skater of her race. Shy, timid and coal-black, she tried on her first pair of skates less than four years ago. Within six months she was mastering spirals, sit-down spins and stops -figures that spill many a veteran. A manager took Mabel in tow, dubbed her "The Swanee Snow Bird" because she was born in Florida, booked her at a scattering of Manhattan rinks. She learned how to dance on ice, how to skate, spin and jump on a rink six feet square...
...Dick Brotemarkle made a sortie and returned, all too soon, from his view point, with the ex Sammy Goodall in tow. Knowing the angles in more ways than one, he had a house to move into...
...place, Bill Henry will play left halfback, a post at which he has seen almost as much action and has been passing more effectively. George O'Day and Tow Ellis are the second-string fullback and tailback respectively...
...stop mechanism. An overrushed inspector tossed out some of the faulty parts; some he passed without tests. The fitting joined the right wing strut to the fuselage. Once it was welded into place, its weakness was hidden from final assembly inspections. But when the glider cut loose from the tow plane on its maiden flight, new stresses snapped the too-thin steel. The craft plummeted 1,500 feet...
...plywood Army glider was released from its tow plane over St. Louis' Municipal Airport. A wing cracked, shredded into splinters. The glider plummeted crazily 1,500 feet to earth. Debris and bodies were thrown 50 ft. into the air. All ten passengers were killed instantly. Among them were St. Louis' 67-year-old reform Mayor William Dee Becker, Major William B. Robertson, pioneer aviation enthusiast and backer of Lindbergh's Paris flight, and other top city officials. The glider ride was the climax of a demonstration by the Army's Troop Carrier Command; the tragedy...