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FORSTER (E.M.) The Longest Journey. Good copy but not fine...
Caught unawares in Rome, barrel-chested Oberst (Colonel) Herman Goring, the Nazi Speaker of the Reichstag, instantly chartered a plane, made the longest Nazi flight. Leader Hitler swooped from Munich to Berlin's famed Tempelhofer flying field in a thundering trimotored ship crammed with political aides, two publicity men and an economist to advise him a la Franklin Delano Roosevelt...
...beat her husband's Cape Town record by 10½ hours, making the flight from Lympne, on the Kent coast, in 4 days, 7 hr. It was an amazing exhibition of stamina. Flying a light Puss Moth named The Desert Cloud she landed only four times, caught three naps, the longest being two hours. She battled with fog over the English Channel, a near-gale over the Mediterranean, sandstorms over the Sahara, torrential rains in Portugese West Africa. At Benguela she was forced down by low oil pressure into a "sea of mud." With improvised tools she made repairs, flew...
Notre Dame thrashed Northwestern 21 to 0. On the first kickoff, George Melinkovich made the longest run of the week, 98 yd. for a touchdown. Added misfortune for Northwestern was what happened to its amiable, hard-plunging halfback. Ernest ("Pug") Rentner; he broke a rib in the first quarter, found out about it at the half. McGuire of Wisconsin caught the kick-off and scuttled 85 yd. to a touchdown. Minnesota tied the score. Wisconsin got -another touchdown. Minnesota matched...
...late William Bolitho once wrote: "In the luxurious hand dealt England by Fate . . . the longest suit is the Jew. . . . Do not forget . . . Marcus Samuel, who gave them a brand new oil empire; Weitzman, who taught them to make high explosives; Mond. who settled the labor war; Herbert Samuel, who nearly prevented the downfall of coal mining, and Rufus Isaacs . . . who saved the Indian Empire that Disraeli created for them. . . . It is not his brain power, his cunning, which England settled on and used. . . . It is the grand manner which is his genius . . . a politeness that introduces serenity and grace wherever...