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Toward Leipsic rumbled a special train carrying an old man whose worst enemies sarcastically admit that he has become almost a god on earth. A cloud of escorting airplanes flew overhead, and the train rumbled on. Crowds cheered as it entered the great Leipsic station. Wearily Paul von Hindenburg descended and passed with tired majesty through a mob whose enthusiasm would barely let him pass...
...study is done in blue-and-gold leather with a star-powdered dome and a secret moonwindow. It is characteristic that Dr. Gentian's wife is a burned-out Greek beauty and that their daughter Sparta has a dazzling net of golden hair, grey eyes changing as a winter cloud, and a voice like "skeins of rock-crystal flecked through and through with tiny flakes of softest gold...
...CLOUD CUCKOO LAND-Naomi Mitchison-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). In the declining days of Greece- when Athens was being slowly done to death by Sparta, when the age-old conflict between democracy and oligarchy was being fought out more bitterly than today-this wistful tale takes place. Its hero, Alxenor, an aristocrat with democratic leanings, is driven from Poieêssa, his native Aegean isle, and follows a dubious fortune in Athens for a time, in Ephesus among the wealthy barbarians (Persians), in Sparta; and finally marches with the Ten Thousand under Cyrus into Asia, dreaming at the last the vain...
...national aircraft situation and give his testimony on what youth can, does and should do in the air. A licensed pilot since he was 13, the young man can navigate the subtle technicalities of aeronautical theory quite as readily as he copes in practice with air-pockets, cross winds, cloud banks and wind squalls...
...city of London, a trapeze was lowered on the end of which dangled a tiny airplane. For a moment it swung there perilously; then its motor took hold and it careered away, maneuvering all about the big dirigible, sniffing at air pockets, nosing through patches of heathery cloud, like a baby kangaroo which had got out of its mother's pouch. Presently the dirigible flashed a signal; the long metallic umbilical cord was lowered again and the airplane whined close, ready to try the hazardous feat of mooring. While both crafts drowsed along at the same speed, the plane...