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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Duncan Phillips had more literary than esthetic interest. As a child he had lived in gloomy Pittsburgh where his father's house was hung with murky landscapes of the Hudson River School in massive, gilded frames. Small Phillips decided he disliked pictures. After college he traveled widely in search, he says, of something to interest him. Paintings did it. His first enthusiasm was Honore Daumier (1808-79) French caricaturist and painter; afterward there were others: the French Impressionists, French and American moderns. But his first interest never waned; today Mr. Phillips has the best Daumier collection in the world...
Again Costes. Round and round a giant's circle, droning on through the Provence mistral with a log of slowly waning fuel and gradually mounting flying time, last week went the Question Mark, red-painted French Breguet airplane, in search of a new endurance record. Piloted by Dieudonné ("Doudou") Costes and his companion Paul Codos, it made its way over flat-roofed, smelly Marseilles, to time-broken Avignon, to musty Narbonne, and then over the same route again. For 52 hours and 34 minutes the Breguet's motor snorted along. Then with a last puff and snort...
...extend their searching range, the five planes of the Alaskan Airways assembled there, planned a fuel base half way between Teller and Cape North. Some idea of the hardships of Arctic cold and lack of adequate food may be had from the story of the McAlpine air party in search of copper marooned for nearly two months above the Arctic Circle and living chiefly on the charity of Eskimos (TIME...
Vonckx, who started from search, threw the weight 46 feet 6 inches, after which was Bennett's toss of 41 feet 10 inches, including a 13 foot handicap. Finlayson, with a three foot lead was measured at 40 feet 2 inches...
...headed west for Cleveland thick snow flurries hid him from the ground. At snow-blown Cleveland Pilot Nelson was late, by minutes, hours, days. Col. Lindbergh, onetime flying companion of the missing man, flew his own machine over the treacherous Alleghenies to join 25 other planes in a systematic search of northern Ohio. Presumption was that Nelson was forced down by ice forming on the wings of his plane. Wing ice changes the air foil to such an extent that the wing no longer exerts a lifting power in forward motion. This trouble and decreased visibility...