Transport: Blood & Agony

Last week near Albona, Spain, a Rolls-Royce going 87 m.p.h. careened into a culvert, turned over five times. From beneath the wreck were pulled the mangled remains of Prince Alexis Mdivani, divorced husband of Barbara Hutton. His driving companion, a German baroness, bit her tongue off, will never talk again.

Last week the Salt Lake City Tribune, under an eight-column headline. 7 L. D. S. MEMBERS DIE IN CRASH, front-paged the finding of the crushed and disfigured bodies of seven Latter Day Saints at the bottom of a 70-foot embankment over which their car had skidded....

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