TOSSED A COIN
BEFORE MAKING FATAL AIR JOURNEY. CAROLE LOMBARD’S DEATH. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) NEW YORK, January 18. The American air line plan in which the film star Carole Lombard and 21 cthei’ passengers were killed, crashed on the 8,500-foot Table Mountain in Nevada and exploded in flames, scattering bodies for hundreds of yards.Clark Gable, Miss Lombard’s husband was attempting to reach the isolated scene of the wreck when news of his wife’s death reached him. A Press agent accompaying Miss Lombard wanted to return from Indianapolis by train, but Miss Lombard desired to fly. They tossed a coin. Miss Lombard won the toss but lost her life.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1942, Page 4
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113TOSSED A COIN Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1942, Page 4
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