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Last week Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. of Akron was awarded the contract for a balloon with a capacity of 3,000,000 cubic feet of gas. With this bag. tall as a 30-story building, the U. S. Army (in conjunction with the National Geographic Society) plans to make two stratosphere flights, one in June and another in September. The pilots will be Major William Kepner, qualified pilot of every type of aircraft, and Captain Albert W. Stevens, air photography expert. Their balloon will be five times as large as the Navy balloon which made the official altitude record...
...understand the conventions of contract bridge...
Herman ("Babe") Ruth to sign his yearly contract with the New York Yankees without weeks & weeks of ballyhooed haggling over his salary; 2) it was a $17,000 cut from last year, a $45,000 cut from his 1931 high; 3) most sportswriters agreed it was the last player-contract 39-year-old Babe Ruth would ever sign...
...returned to the London of 1934 and the charms of a worldly woman (Judith Anderson). He is torn between joy in his love and despair at her breezy cynicism. At a cocktail party, the Woman, weaving drunkenly among her guests, discovers that the Boy has signed a contract to write for Hollywood. That everyone knows this except herself sends her into a fit of rage. When the Boy comes demurely in she is auctioning him off to her covetous lady friends: Here's property for sale, A little worn and frail, But definitely male. Full of shame...
...give his opinions on Coach Kipke. In Boston. Sports Columnist Bill Cunningham sagely decided that Coach Kipke would find Yale material feebler than that to which he had been accustomed at Michigan. The New Haven Journal-Courier revealed that one Ivan Williamson, Michigan end in 1932, had signed a contract to coach Yale's freshman team in 1934 to pave the way for Kipke. The New York American discovered that it would cost Yale $27,000 to hire Coach Kipke and assistants for one year. Malcolm Fanner once more denied that Kipke had been asked to coach the Yale...