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...ideal aircraft with head-resistance reduced to absolute minimum, has been loosely used to describe all manner of low-wing monoplanes and effectively streamlined craft. Last week at Boiling Field (Washington, D. C.) was flown a ship nearly approaching the ideal, an Army experimental observation plane built by Anthony Herman Gerhard Fokker. Twin Curtiss Conqueror engines, 600 h. p. with small chemical-cooled radiators, are mounted inside the single thick tapered wing on either side the fuselage. In flight the landing gear can be retracted into the belly of the fuselage, like a bird's legs...
...Hauser, first baseman for the Baltimore "Orioles" (International League): the home-run record of the world; by hitting his 61st of the year in a game with Newark. Previous recordist: George Herman ("Babe") Ruth of New York, who made...
...President Hoover last week named Herman Murray Jacoby, wealthy German-born Manhattan bond broker, to represent him as a special ambassador next November when Ras Taffari. Regent of Ethiopia, becomes H. I. M. Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia. To Addis Ababa, remote Abyssinian capital, for the African coronation Mr. Jacoby will take a full diplomatic staff, including Brig. General William Wright Harts and Charles Lee Cooke, the State Department's ceremonial officer. One reason why the U. S. should participate so elaborately in an Abyssinian ceremony: J. G. White Engineering Corp. of New York has a large contract with...
Moby Dick (Warner). Like The Sea Beast, the silent version of Herman Melville's story in which Barrymore appeared four years ago, this is a true moving picture, no less effective because a conventional love-interest has been added to the activities of a crazy one-legged sea-captain who wanted to get even with a whale. Across tremendous horizons the camera's eye wheels after the tiny whaling boat chasing a corporate phantom of monstrous, inhuman evil. All the work that a camera can do with great spaces and wild things is done, pictorially, as it should be. This...
...Leitmeritz last week it pleased the court to engage in a game of hide & seek. Finder was Herman Scheinschneider-who prefers to be called Erik Hanussen-a clairvoyant whose services include discovering lost property, giving stock tips, fortune telling...