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During my 25 years of fox-hunting I have been present at a few kills, but never have I beheld a woman, either decent or indecent, holding aloft a fox's brush (or tail, to the Bishop), with the field of 30 or 40 yelling "Trophy...
Last New Year's morning, Al Williams had the idea of flying aloft before earthly dawn to see a preview of 1936's first sunrise. Last week he repeated this maneuver. Upon alighting, he sat down in the hangar and typed out what he had seen and felt. The result was a glowing little chapter of air literature. Excerpts...
Although there are many fine minds to be found in the contemporary world, Professor Whitehead dwarfs them all. He soars freely in the rarified atmosphere about which most of mankind only dreams. The torch he still holds aloft burns brightly only once in many generations, but it lights the way for succeeding, less creative inheritors, and lives on, as indestructible as philosophy itself...
Ernest Jiinger was hailed by Nazis in Berlin last week as having perfectly caught the essence of their Kultur in his volume of essays entitled The Inner Experience of Battle. Excerpts: "All Freedom, all Greatness, all Culture are only maintained and spread aloft by wars. . . . Today in Germany we write poems in steel and symphonies in ferroconcrete. . . . War is the mightiest encounter of nations...
...dawn's crack, these gentlemen gathered at Lakehurst before 6 a. m. Loading the wealthiest cargo that ever went aloft, the dirigible circled over Manhattan until a heavy mist burned off enough to give the tourists a view, then headed north up the Hudson River. Over Yonkers at 8:53 a. m. the passengers heard cries from school yards where teachers delayed classes. At Sing Sing, the New York Times reported, "the ship had a different and silent greeting from convicts in the yard." At the Danbury Fair, barkers, fan dancers and blooded cattle paused to stare with their...