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...America once more awakens to the crack of a whip across her cheek by a foreign visitor, and this time, hopefully, the welt seems a little higher and redder than usual...
Along a take-off level notched into the side of an Alpine peak near the Engadine Valley, Chiogna, crack skiman of Switzerland, moved out onto the run. It dropped away under his feet so sharply that watchers behind him could not see the whole course; part of it seemed almost perpendicular. On the run the packed icy snow had just enough surface to give Chiogna steering purchase as he shot downward on his special skis-the skis of a fairytale, fantastically long and heavy. Five electric control stations shunted into a 150-metre circuit measured his time. On the long...
Pale, pop-eyed Erik Berggreen stood at the bar of a Swedish court last week charged with robbery, to wit: the theft of a number of watches, pieces of jewelry. As the evidence was reported, Swedish travelers for the past six months on the crack Norrland Express, between Stockholm and Narvik in Norway, tingled at the thought that they had been riding on a train driven not only by a thief, but by a madman...
Going Wild (Warner). One of the most frightening experiences undergone by people who are learning to fly is "ground-fear"-the conviction that if they try to land the plane they will crack it up. In the case of Comic Joe E. Brown the conviction is not purely neurotic, for he has never flown before. He is a reporter who has been mistaken for a famed ace. Going Wild is a mildly amusing, derivative comedy whose laughs do not compensate for long stretches of dullness. Laura Lee is the girl. Best shot: the plane crashing while Brown and his sweetheart...
...notorious Oxford accent receives a double-barrelled crack from the two writers. To their critical eyes, the distorted and emasculated Oxonian drawl is readily imitated by those who would ape their betters. The snippishness of the typical don has had a wide effect in debasing the English speech...