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Shortly after turning northward, a bird struck a wing of the big amphibian. Airmen always think this is a bad augury. Halfway to Angmagsalik the party ran into a blinding blizzard that whipped up a nasty sea, blotted out the visibility. Snow so loaded the plane that the speed was cut to 60 m.p.h. Unable to climb above the storm, Pilot Hutchinson dropped to 50 ft. With windshields caked with snow, he dodged icebergs and cliffs until forced to make a practically blind landing. Drift ice punctured a pontoon. Radioman Gerald Altfilisch sent out SOS calls and their position, soon...
...will not croon their way into overnight prosperity. They will not use voices so small and pinched that they are inaudible a few feet away in the studio. The control man will not be the real hero of their performances. Alda pupils must learn to sing in the canary bird's way. They must begin by developing tight abdominal muscles, soft, relaxed throats...
...Audubon's friends made him the rival of Alexander Wilson, so Brasher's have pitted his work against that of the late Louis Agassiz Fuertes. Married, facing the compulsion of supporting his fam ily. Fuertes wanted to paint all North American birds but had to limit himself chiefly to illustration work. He encouraged and helped Rex Brasher, adding his own great bird erudition and subtle eye for bird character to Brasher's. Rex Brasher alone has had simultaneously the time, the ability, the monumental persistence, the hardheaded fidelity to do all the birds of North America...
...hull of Miss England III repowered for this year's races, were two 2,200-h. p. Rolls-Royce motors of the lightweight supercharged type which the British Air Ministry developed for its Schneider Cup-winning planes and which Sir Malcolm Campbell had in his Blue Bird automobile when he set the land speed record last winter. Gar Wood, defending the trophy which the U. S. has held since 1907, had no government aid, no rich backer like Kaye Don's oil tycoon, Lord Wakefield. In the hull of Miss America X was a power plant which...
...mountain race, the tendency of a trade route. Not pretending to be anything but a "poor ama-teur," Author Van Loon makes a blanket apology for statistical inaccuracies, explains that the authorities he has had to depend upon contradict themselves. Doubtless few professional geographers will shoot a sitting bird by reading Van Loon's Geography for mistakes; but even a fellow-amateur may hit on some. The graphic sketches and three-dimensional maps are often effective, enlightening, sometimes merely unscientific and cheap, for example a drawing of Fujiyama with a tree in the foreground captioned "The Old Japan"; the same...