Four year old survives six-story fall, and more

Four year old survives six-story fall

They’re calling it the Miami miracle. Joey Williams, age 4, was chasing a balloon on the balcony of his family’s 17th-story apartment in a Miami high rise when he climbed over the railing and tumbled onto a pool deck six stories below. He sustained only minor injuries. Officials say his fall was slowed when he hit a palm tree and a shrub on the way down, landing on a dirt surface. Jay Moseley witnessed the incident from the deck. “It was like God’s hand was on him as he came down,” Moseley said.

New Zealand film archive unearths lost American silent films

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Several American silent films, lost and forgotten for more than 80 years, have been unearthed in a New Zealand film archive and will soon be available for public viewing on the Internet. Since New Zealand was the end of the film distribution network, many reels ended up in the vaults of the national archive. They have now been catalogued, and include a silent feature directed by John Ford, a period drama starring Clara Bow, and several one-reel Westerns. The films are being returned to the U.S. under the auspices of the National Film Preservation Foundation, which calls the discovery both an artistic and historic treasure.

Lost wallet returned after 69 years

It took 69 years, but WWII veteran Robert Bell finally got his wallet back. In 1941, Bell, 88, lost his wallet during military training at a Chicago school. Twenty-five years later, it was found in a crawl space by a school staffer, who tried over the years to locate Bell. Late last year he turned it over to an American Legion Post, which contacted the Social Security Administration. Officials tracked Bell down at a Utah retirement home, where he was delighted to discover the wallet contained two photos of his late wife, taken when she was his girlfriend. “I was just so excited,” Bell said. “I still can’t believe it.”