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...Lockheed Vega with a pilot, two commercial photographers and a script girl aboard, hired to get some shots of the silvery train to be used by C. B. & Q. for publicity. With its engine cut too low for the glide, the little monoplane was suddenly caught in the vortex of air caused by the stream-liner's passage. Out of control, it banked sharply to the right, crashed in a gush of flame. When rescuers arrived, "the bodies were already burned beyond recognition...
When Greece recalled King George II from placid exile in shabby, respectable Brown's Hotel in London last year, it sucked him into a political vortex of danger and unease so critical that his friends were unfairly suspected of having poisoned his chief antagonist, the late General-Dictator George Kondylis (TIME, Feb. 10). Last week King George, normally a sedate and cautious citizen, was driving in nervous haste down an Athens street when a street car suddenly lumbered around a corner directly into his path. Having been tuned by his new life to hair-trigger reflexes, the King swung...
...VORTEX-José Eustasio Rivera- Putnam ($2.50). Melodramatic Spanish tale of the South American rubber forests. This only novel of its late author is a famed best-seller in his own country...
...Suritz well. He went out from Moscow to Kabul more than a decade ago. He greased the right palms so adroitly that the British Empire's influence in Afghanistan was threatened and ex-King Amanullah today is said to blame Jacques Suritz for having started the seven-year vortex of intrigue which finally sent His Majesty flying for his life (TIME. June 3, 1929). Successful Suritz moved from Kabul to Ankara where he has been Soviet Ambassador to Turkey for the past eleven years. Lodged in a super-modernistic Soviet Embassy with soaring porches like the wings...
Founded in 1862 three years after the fabulous Comstock Lode was opened in Nevada, the San Francisco Mining Exchange was the vortex of a feverish speculative mining boom that burned the land or two decades after the Civil War. During the 1870's while the Floods, Mackays, O'Briens, et al. were plucking some $750,000,000 in gold and silver from the Comstock Lode, police guarded the portals of Mining Exchange as the public clamored to buy, buy, buy. Bodie was the favorite with Eastern investors and caused them more grief than any other stock...