As swashbuckling Colonel Roscoe Turner, 44, unscathed in many a deathdefying air race and three-time winner of the Thompson Trophy, drove from the Indianapolis municipal airport, a motorist neglected to stop at a blind intersection, crashed into him. Result: a broken pelvis, possible chest injuries.
Summoned before a London tribunal, Conscientious Objector Frederick Stephen Temple, nephew of the Archbishop of York, was exempted from combat service on religious grounds. Quaker Temple, an ambulance driver in Norway and Finland, desired to remain with his unit for the duration of World War II.
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