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...Literary Digest of some two years ago were several columns of moonshine and nonsense anent how some Indians who lived in a certain altitude near Albuquerque, N. M. had a penchant for long distance running as no other white men had, etc., etc., etc. Yet had the writer been informed he would have found out that these records were away below those of Newton made only a few months and years before this, and none seemed to know that the peerless runner George Littlesond of Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, came to Madison Square, N. Y. and on Dec. 1882 covered...
...rich larder of documents, reports, memoirs, novels on the War and its aftermath which future historians must digest, a new titbit was added last week. William Randolph Hearst's able, convivial...
...times that amount. __ He had hindered her selling a picture to the Kansas City Art Museum by asserting that her picture which she believes is da Vinci's La Belle Ferronierc was a copy of an original in the Louvre (TIME, Feb. 18, 1928 ct scq.). Commented Art Digest at the time: "If Sir Joseph had not settled the famous case of Hahti v. Duveen . . . The Art Digest on authority which it considers infallible, would have expected a witness to have been produced . . . who would have sworn that he painted at least 20 pictures that have passed into...
...others. His fellows like him for his affability, attribute his apparent diffidence to his partial deafness. He drives a Chrysler car to and from Pasadena, where he lives with his wife, the former Margaret Watson, and their three children. A facile writer, he types his own copy for Aero Digest, for which he is radio editor and a monthly contributor...
...breeze out of Houston, Tex. last week to race for two of the three places on the U. S. Team in the Gordon Bennett International Balloon Race in September.* Carried east by the shifting wind, ten of the bags were downed by storms near Texarkana, Ark. Two, the Aero-Digest piloted by S. T. Moore and Lieut. W. O. Eareckson, and United Van Service with pilots George Hineman and Milford Vanik, had the unpleasant experience of being shot at by woolly-wild Texas and Arkansas farmers. Last to land, three days after the start, was the Goodyear Zeppelin, piloted...