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Great majority of injuries, both minor and serious, received by people in automobile crashes are due to their being thrown forward against dashboard, windshield, steering wheel or seat by their own inertia when their car suddenly slams to a stop. Last week Major Alford Joseph ("Al") Williams, speed flyer of note and writer of ability (TIME, Jan. 11), proposed a simple remedy in his daily column in the Pittsburgh Press. Excerpt...
...bark's nose for the Congo. Thompson (Wallace Beery), the wily mate, planned to leave Captain Lovett on the beach after the cargo was aboard, but Lovett climbed aboard from a native proa. Annexing the arsenal, Lovett and Nancy, helped by the cabin boy (Mickey Rooney), held the wheel against the ruffian mutineers. At St. Helena, Mate Thompson, with the gallows in his mind, planned to destroy evidence by linking the slaves' fetters to the anchor chain and dropping anchor. In a free-for-all, Skipper Lovett freed most of the blackbirds, shot Thompson in the belly...
...wheel of vast Brazil for seven years has sat dressy little President Getulio Vargas, who elected himself the first time in 1930 by throwing President-elect Julio Prestes in jail and was legally "reelected" for his present term which expires next year. Last week even the remotest of Brazil's jungle towns heard the news they had long been awaiting: that Strong Man Vargas is content to abide by Brazil's Constitution which forbids him to succeed himself in January's presidential election. Chosen in Rio de Janeiro by an all-party conclave as the "official...
Were Henry Ford bowled over by a Ford or William Knudsen by a Chevrolet, he would feel as President Jack Frye of Transcontinental & Western Air, Inc. felt when, landing at Pittsburgh with ten other passengers in a TWA plane, the tail wheel snagged and the big Douglas ground-looped, smacking its wing into a temporary grandstand. Injuries: none...
Behind the royal yacht came the Admiralty yacht Enchantress bristling with Sea Lords, a number of chartered ocean liners, bearing 3,000 favored British taxpayers, and at the rear', 3½-miles behind the royal yacht, the splashing paddle-wheel steamer Whippingham, bearing 300 disgusted newskawks who scarcely saw the royal yacht...