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...Flying Fool." A loop, another loop, a snap roll, a series of slow rolls, an Immelman. . . . Crowds at the Miami All-American Air Races had seen such stunts done before, but never by a plane like this one?a tiny Curtiss Teal amphibian. Dale ("Red") Jackson, co-holder with Forest O'Brine of the world's refueling duration record, was again qualifying for a nickname he earned two years ago? "Flying Fool.". . . Again he pulled the little ship over in a loop, began to straighten out after the dive?when a wing tore off, then another . . . Pilot Jackson died...
...Dartmouth, 5 for Yale. ¶Roger F. Turner of Boston and Maribel Y. Vinson, 19, Radcliffe junior: respectively the national ice skating championship and the women's championship, each for the fifth successive year, at Manhattan's Ice Club. Following a flawless execution of the "school figures" (loop-change-loop, counter, bracket-change-bracket) Miss Vinson clinched her victory with a brilliant display of free-skating...
...indoor stadium, not to be confused with Soldier Field, occupies a full city block on West Madison Street, two miles from the "Loop." Its seating capacity is 25,000. Its organ, strong as 25 brass bands, smashes electric light bulbs by its vibration when played fortissimo. Delegates will not have to sweat disgustingly in their shirtsleeves, because the huge building is equipped with an airicing machine to maintain...
...corners in red suits ringing cow bells. On envelopes are little green stamps emblazoned with the cross of the crusades. An old woman in the South End stares out a dirty window into a dirty street at a delivery truck painted red and green. Young girls in Beacon Hill loop up to a candle smiling winsomely through lace curtains. Mail men stoop beneath vast leather bags full of hopeful verse in bad metre and worn out welcomes. Shop girls run over their heels and smile in tried silence. Fat dowagers in alligator pumps talk over counters with irascible volubility. Little...
After last fortnight's big bank mergers in Chicago, La Salle Street and the Loop breathed more easily. But fear and suspicion grew rampant in outlying districts. Armored cars rushed from the big Loop banks, carried millions of dollars to little banks where unexpected runs had started. But not all the outlying banks were in a condition to warrant saving. In one crack the twelve banks of the John Bain chain went down, affecting laborers and commuting clerks in such Southside districts as Stony Island, Auburn Park, Englewood and Chicago Lawn. Although onetime Scot and onetime Plumber Bain said...