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With the end of the depression, or for some other equally good reason, men are dressing up more this fall and winter than many a year past: not just the always popular dinner jacket, but more to tails for the real formal occasions...
Across New York's Floyd Bennett Field at 8 o'clock one morning last week walked a nervous little man wearing a dinner jacket with grey slacks and a tennis sweater. Struggling into a heavy flying suit on top of that, he stepped into a green and orange monoplane, soared away. "Where's that fellow going?" asked a workman. "To London," replied a bystander. Grunted the workman: "The guy must be nuts...
From Floyd Bennett he buzzed up to Harbor Grace, Newfoundland in less than seven hours, was forced to stay there 24 hours by bad weather. Changing his crumpled dinner jacket to normal clothing, he finally shot away at dark into a snow storm. Thirteen hours, 17 minutes later, down he swooped at Croydon at 10 a. m., after a perfect flight which added several achievements to his list: 1) fastest eastbound crossing; 2) first private pilot to fly the Atlantic four times; 3) only pilot heading for London on a transatlantic flight to get there without a forced landing...
...councillor, are skillfully contrasted with the populace of Naples, aristocrats, shopkeepers, servants, and the appalling "Iazzarone", who lived like beasts in filthy holes by the sea, coming out only at night or when there was looting to be done. Vincent Sheean's first novel is excellent. Never, as the jacket-blurb says, actually anti-historical, it is an impressive demonstration of the mingling in just proportion of literal fact and educated imagination...
...childhood instructors tried in vain to cure her of-a heavy hand. Her drawing is strong. The point of her pictures is always heartily obvious. Now at 59, she is a highly respectable figure in the British art world with her personal trademarks of a sombrero and velvet jacket, her hair in two buns over the ears...