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...automobile driver's license. He asked the examiner: "How long have you driven?" "Thirty years." Observed Shaw: "Then you soon will drive as well as I." Last week Driver Shaw drove a rented automobile into a ditch, jolting himself severely and injuring his wife's wrist. Meanwhile he heard from London that his ten-year-old fight to have a garbage dump removed from the vicinity of his Hertfordshire home had finally succeeded...
...refused to see Miss Walsh (his comment: "The hell with her") ; but to the end he supplied a certain amount of drama of his own kind. He bade a friendly farewell to the warden whose broken wrist was in a sling. Said he: "Gee, I feel sorry for you." (The warden, for the first time in his twelve years administration, did not attend the execution.) He walked grinning to the chair, told one of the guards that one of the electrodes against his leg did not seem tight enough, and he died...
Injured were: Josephus Daniels, 69, Wilsonian Secretary of the Navy, publisher of the Raleigh (N.. C.) News & Ob server, when the automobile in which he was riding was forced over an embankment near Atlanta and struck a tree; se vere lacerations of the scalp and a broken wrist. Chain-Publisher Frank Ernest Gannett & Wife, when their automobile skidded and overturned near Camden, S. C. Mrs. Gannett was taken to a Camden hospital, suffering a broken collar bone. Publisher Gannett proceeded to his Miami Beach home before he discovered he had three broken ribs. British States man Winston Churchill, struck...
Horton Smith won the qualifying round with a record 68 and a competent 75. Then he went motoring with his friend Joe Kirkwood. Coming back, he put out his right hand while Kirkwood was parking the car, had it jammed against a post. Next day, his broken wrist in a cast, Horton Smith saw Burke go two extra holes to beat Tomekichi Miyamoto, Japanese champion in 1929 and 1930, who had come over for the winter season with two other crack Japanese pros, Rakuzo Asami and Kokichi Yasuda...
...went up with Wilbur, you learned to work a lever at your right hand, to make the plane go up or down. Wilbur had one like it at his left. A third lever between the seats "warped" the wings, made the plane bank and, by a twist of the wrist, swung the rudder. Once you learned that, there was no use in going up with Orville because he would make you sit on the left where the levers were just reversed. Later, when they had more than one plane, each of the brothers developed his own system of control...