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Footloose. In Lille, France, tile-setter Yvon Dherire slipped from a roof, plummeted six stories, landed unhurt in a baby buggy from 'which a mother had just snatched her child. Consequence: the mother fainted, fell, broke an ankle...
Geronimo! (Feb.). In Port Chester, N.Y., pajama-clad ex-Paratrooper Thomas Thomas bailed out of his second-floor bedroom, landed unhurt, explained: "I could swear I heard the sergeant yell 'Jump...
Woman's Way. In Chicago, a young woman threw herself in front of a train, changed her mind, flattened her body between the rails, escaped unhurt...
...Constellation (which has a landing-gear lever where the DC-4 has its flap lever). Instead of the flaps coming up, the wheels came up. The Connie crashed seven feet, on to the runway. The crew and 26 passengers were unhurt. But the $750,000 Connie was damaged beyond repair. Contributing cause to the accident: a safety lock-designed to keep the landing gear from coming up when a plane is on the ground-did not work...
Last week, California's stylists got some publicity they had not counted on. As Hollywood's pretty designer Dede Johnson paraded her new styles on the rim of the Canyon, she fell over the edge, landed on a ledge 50 feet down. Luckily, she was unhurt, except for bruises and shock; luckily there were news stories. (Eastern stylists cattishly murmured that this was going too far, even for California...