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...danger of bursting because of the sudden pressure release. The fabric of the starboard fin let go, as the port had done. After a minute of severe tossing the R-100 was again master, plowing ahead on an even keel. The laconic log-entry by Squadron Leader R. S. Booth, in command: "Ship's height varied rapidly between...
...Author Kahler's) which enabled him to refrain from beating his breast-in fact, to receive congratulations on his shrewdness-when, an unwilling wedding guest, he heard the loud bassoon. Author Hugh MacNair Kahler, 47, is of that school of U. S. writers which owes allegiance to Booth ("Old Tark") Tarking ton. Although Father Means Well is his first novel, Author Kahler is a well known short-story writer and has been at it for years. Tall, lean, pleasant-but-slightly-worried-looking, he lives in Princeton, N. J., where he went to college. He works hard, is good...
...Manhattan, when Fred Roth put three nickels in succession into a pay-station telephone and got no response, Fred Roth ran amok, ripped out the door of the booth, punched a policeman's nose, landed in jail...
...coup (TIME, Jan. 21, 1929): for sixpence she bought the right to guess the names of a boy and a girl doll: guessed "Stanley" and "Lucy" (her husband's name and her own), won the dolls which had been thus named by the apple-cheeked girl in the booth. "I knew you d guess them!" cried she. "We named them 'specially in hopes you would...
Poet Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (Rhymes to be Traded for Bread, The Congo, General William Booth Enters Heaven), famed in his home town of Springfield, Ill. as much for civic enthusiasm as for poetry, recently backed the city's campaign for a lake to augment an inadequate water supply, by writing a signed and widely-circulated voters' bulletin. Excerpts: "You speculate on the practical uses of Lake Springfield. . . . The next afternoon you are inclined to loaf, take the trip over the Lake Springfield trail. . . . Climb into the family bus and hit the trail. . . . Linger through the evening. Watch...