Word: aurora
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...another 100 straight in the shoot-off - after which you're knotted with six other guys." As the week wore on, it seemed almost so. Even the women began to make perfect scores look like child's play. First, Mrs. M. L. Smythe, a 96-lb. Aurora, Ohio housewife, broke 100 straight - the first century ever chalked up by a woman in a national skeet tournament. Then, 19-year-old Patricia Laursen, a Rollins College junior, often called America's most beautiful athlete, scored another...
...Vice Admiral William ("Jock") Whitworth, Commander of the Battle Cruiser Squadron, at heart a small-ship man, "the Beatty of this war." He has twin sons, aged 29, in the Navy. Commander of the Destroyer Flotillas is Vice Admiral Ronald H. C. Hallifax whose flagship, the light cruiser Aurora, was air-bombed the same day as Sir Charles's Rodney and with like effect...
...travels in South America. In The Earth Upsets, he announced that the earth's axis tips a mile to the northeast every year. ("The earth is a drunken staggering thing . . . the greatest acrobat that we have.") His present passions are botany, and a theory that the aurora borealis (still a scientific mystery) "is light sifted through clouds of sub-microscopic insects...
...literary histories pass over the career of Elbert Hubbard, Sage of East Aurora. Yet his writings crossed the path of a whole U. S. generation. Between 1895 and his death on the Lusitania, millions read his little magazine, The Philistine, his Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great. He wrote the most famous of all inspirational bromides, A Message to Garcia (total estimated printing to date: 40,000,000 copies, including those issued as regulation equipment to both Russian and Japanese soldiers in the Russo-Japanese...
...mission-oak library tables were without a limp leather volume from Elbert Hubbard's Roycroft Shops in East Aurora, N. Y., which also flooded the land with such objets d'art as hammered copper book ends, goatskin table covers, leather pillows, mattresses, mission furniture, ferneries. As inventor of signed ads for Big Business, Fra Elbertus reached most millions of all. Sometimes he was called a combination of a dozen geniuses including Benjamin Franklin, Victor Hugo, Emerson and William Morris; other times, a combination of P. T. Barnum, Robert G. Ingersoll, Henry Ward Beecher...