Word: solos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lanky, tousle-mopped Amelia Earhart, whom the Pacific swallowed two years ago, flew the Atlantic twice: in 1928 with a pilot (she never touched the controls); in 1932 solo. Soaring Wings, a family memoir by her publicity-loving husband, George Palmer Putnam, is full of scrappy, discursive trivia (Flier Earhart kept bowls of little yellow tomatoes around the house to eat at random, slept three nights in a new flying coat to get it suitably wrinkled) but does manage to tell how this four-year air change came about...
...about 20%, pass). On these picked few, Holy Name's faculty (non-Catholic Superintendent John Wilson, seven lay instructors, one Viatorian brother, one Carmelite priest) lavish care not to be found in many U. S. scientific colleges or U. S. aviation schools. Although they get 250 hours' solo, the students are prepared for careers in aeronautical engineering rather than commercial flying...
Chief problem was how to fly there. He had serviced many a plane but had never piloted one. Mechanic Eshleman forthwith took eight hours' flying instruction, four hours' solo...
...County has written two books (The Tribulations of a Baronet, Five Dogs and Two More), likes to dash off oil paintings of friends in the family armor, himself amid the family books. Last week Londoners were getting their first look at the eighth Baronet's paintings in a solo show at Tooth's. Off-dashedest: portrait of Brother Anthony...
...fourth records, a ten and twelve inch platter of the blues, with such stars as Frankie Newton and Albert Ammons taking part. While the recording wasn't too good on both the records, the playing on the ten inch was enough to persuade me. Recommended are the trumpet solos of Newton and the trombone solo of Higgenbothem . . . As to Harry James, heard at Adams House last Monday, almost everybody was musically disappointed. James, while having smoothed his style somewhat since last hearing, still plays very stiffly himself and his rhythm section sounds as if it were descended from the proud...