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Stag. Publisher of Stag, "A Magazine for Men," is Philip L. Tuchman, a substantial Manhattan capitalist taking a flyer. Mr. Tuchman stoutly maintains that Stag is not an imitation of Esquire, but the cover lettering of Stag is distinctly reminiscent and its first contents- divided between mildly scabrous cartoons and mannish text by folk like Hendrik Willem van Loon, Carleton Beals, Ernest Boyd, Jack Dempsey-were unmistakable. Stag is pocket-sized, costs...
...potent in Portland were these families of cousins that in 1930 the first member of either to take a flyer in politics, President Julius L. Meier, was promptly and overwhelmingly elected Governor of Oregon. Depression, however, made this a discouraging experience. Committed to a public power ownership platform, Governor Meier was thwarted by thrifty opponents who objected to his private telephone from capitol to store, his installation of the first private lavatory in the Governor's office. Furthermore, his pet financial hobby, the American National Bank of Portland, took the Bank Holiday of 1933 with such relief that...
...Fiction I WANTED WINGS-Beirne Lay Jr.- Harper ($2.50). The education of a U. S. Army flyer at Randolph and Kelly Fields, Texas. Spirited, informative reading...
After almost 16 hours, the twin-motored monoplane slid down at Hawaii with a new record for the jump. Next day, mechanics achieved a flurry of headlines by discovering "a potential disaster threat" in faulty lubrication of the propeller bearings. That fixed Flyer Amelia climbed aboard with two of her crew to take off for the 1,940 mi. hop to Howland Island. Down the ong concrete runway of Luke Field the ship shot at 60 m.p.h. Suddenly the left tire blew out. Lurching, the plane rumpled its landing gear, careened 1,000 ft.. on its bottom...
...Ambassador to Great Britain Walter Hines Page's secretary, a rich young athlete named Harold Fowler, resigned to go to War as a flyer. By the Armistice, Col. Harold Fowler had been wounded four times, shot down seven times, decorated with the Distinguished Service Medal. He celebrated by flying his plane under the Arc de Triomphe. Next time Harold Fowler popped into the news was in 1927 when he became the first U. S. citizen to ride in the Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree. He was thrown twice. Next year he was thrown again. Other activities have been diplomacy...