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...trip, which will take the greater part of the summer, Ostheimer hopes to ascend four of the highest mountains in the Rockies; Mount Columbia, the North Twin, and Mounts Clemenceau and Robson, a feat which has never been accomplished before. Seven men will go on the expedition, two besides Ostheimer being Harvard undergraduates...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OSTHEIMER TO SCALE FOUR MOUNTAIN PEAKS | 5/10/1927 | See Source »

...Lieutenant Wooster turned the beak of the American Legion, slightly, ever so slightly. With that turn, the plane lost flying speed. A landing was now imperative. Marshes, mud flats, duck ponds yawned below. Upon a small patch of green, Lieutenant Wooster made a perfect landing-an almost unheard-of feat with a plane loaded so heavily. The yellow giant skidded across the green marsh into the muddy waters of a shallow duck pond, wherein the giant's beak stuck. Its tail completed a semicircle. In its cockpit lay Lieutenant Wooster with his neck broken, Commander Davis with his face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Yellow Giant | 5/9/1927 | See Source »

...Mother of fivE . , . Mother of five ," your Sports Editor repeats that three times before the name of Mrs. George W. Wightman, and seems to think it a great feat that she has been five times a mother yet has won three tennis titles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 2, 1927 | 5/2/1927 | See Source »

This ancient, able, angular seer of baseball, who shares managerial honors with John J. McGraw of the New York Giants, led his Philadelphia club to its first American League pennant in 1902. He repeated the feat in 1905, 1910, 1911, 1913, 1914. At the conclusion of the 1914 campaign, he found that his winning habits had had a deadening, unprofitable effect on his public. Philadelphians were sure that Mack's team would win; were spending their money to witness sports in which the element of chance was more noticeable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ball! | 4/11/1927 | See Source »

Sirs: There is little danger of ever losing me as a subscriber-a year ago I won a General Information Quizz prize of $25.00, a feat which I attribute to TIME'S timely assistance. Thus I feel I can subscribe for five years FREE. Even after TIME will continue to be worth the chips. ALLAN M. SHEAHEN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 4, 1927 | 4/4/1927 | See Source »

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