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...engines, the seagoing bomber was capable of carrying a 30,000 Ib. pay load to 40,000ft. heights and at speeds over 600 m.p.h. Then, in an instant, the plane burst into flames, went out of control into a steep dive, crashed in a field near Wilmington, Del. The four-man civilian crew parachuted to safety...
...just cannot believe there is an intelligent American with the mentality of the Wilmington (N.C.) Morning Star editor. We in the Philippines look upon America as our great teacher in democracy. When we come across things like this, we begin to doubt whether our American books and American teachers told us everything...
North Carolina's Wilmington Morning Star (circ. 17,866) went to press with a front-page picture of four Marine witnesses in the court-martial of Sergeant Matthew C. McKeon (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). As soon as the paper hit his desk, the editor on duty gulped and stopped the presses. He had failed to notice, in the shadowy impression on the Associated Press mat that supplied the picture, that one of the marines, Private Eugene W. Ervin of Bridgeport, Conn., was a Negro. The deskman met the crisis by ordering a pressman to take hammer and chisel...
...Hollywood's Princess Grace rode forth from their palace to a Fourth of July Mass in the local cathedral, later watched a drill put on by the Cadets of the Prince, a boys' cadre sponsored by Rainier's spiritual preceptor and matchmaker, Father Francis Tucker of Wilmington, Del. Meanwhile, palace prattlers reported that Bishop Gilles Barthe of Monaco had been so bold as to ask the Prince if Grace is perchance in a family way. Rainier's careful reply: "Not for the moment...
...Admittance. In the course of its routine investigation, the finance company wrote Westminster College in Cochran ville, Pa. to learn more about Fordham. Since there is no college of any sort at Cochranville, the letter ended up at the nearest Westminster, in New Wilmington, Pa. Yes, the college said, Henry Fordham had once applied for admission, "but we didn't admit him because of the poor quality of the work represented by his credits." Fordham's documents, complete with a most convincing seal, had nothing to do with that Westminster College...