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...already misty with crepuscular legend. The Journey of the Flame, a book of vigorous old man's talk, full of stout-hearted miracles and boasting, is like a suddenly-discovered window into that earlier age. Not only Californians but anyone wise or lucky enough to read it will delight in this altogether dignified but occasionally joyously incredible narrative...
...Editor Cummins fought soberly and solemnly. He now fights with satire and whimsy, aided by his literary wife, Evelyn Atwater, whom he married 18 years ago. Most Episcopalians are unsympathetic with Dr. Cummins' notions, unimpressed by the horrors he cries up. But they read the "Chronic Hell" with delight, enjoying the loving care with which copes & mitres, red zucchettas, masses, rosaries and the beard of King Charles I are castigated.* Some bishops apprehensively toe the Protestant line when Dr. Cummins, on one of his many preaching excursions, appears in their dioceses...
...yanked his ripcord. Said he afterward: ''The jolt was so great that for a moment everything was dark. Then the sun shone green. I made a normal landing with my parachute [in a forest] and walked back to the airfield where they greeted me with shouts of delight because they thought I was dead." Evceyef's record beat the previous mark, held by an Englishman, by more than a mile. The jolt suffered by Jumper Evceyef was no worse than if he had jumped from only 2,000 ft. and pulled his ripcord...
...these works of art, but he sells them to his class. The sleepy auditor is apt to wonder whether he is listening to the dean of the architectural school teaching Fine Arts, or Joseph P. Day auctioning off the Metropolitan Museum. Accordingly, this course is the dilettante's delight. For the socially ambitious sophomore who would charm the tea-tables of Brattle street, it is an unavoidable requirement...
...interests of historical accuracy, it is perhaps well that Professor Samuel Eliot Morison should begin investigating the authenticity of Harvard's multitudinous insignia. Posterity will no doubt delight in learning that the University letterhead was filched from a Newtowne vintner, or that the proud heraldry of the Weatmorly windows is merely the unacknowledged issue of a brandy label...