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...Hornell, N. Y. last week two seagulls flopped helplessly to earth in the business district, their wings so coated with ice they could not fly. Thawed out by a game warden, they were soon sent on their way. Also last week, the misadventure which overtook two of Nature's best flying mechanisms overtook one of Man's best flying mechanisms 200 miles as the gull flies southwest of Hornell. Just outside of Pittsburgh, a twin-motored Douglas DC2 crippled by ice flopped helplessly to earth killing 13 people in 1937's third major air disaster...
Sensitive about the long-languishing French & Italian operas, Johnson scoured Europe for a man who could resuscitate them. In Paris he was struck by a fresh, vividly staged Fidelia; in Vienna he applauded a crisp mounting of Tannhauser. Finally in Salzburg he overtook and engaged the man responsible for both: young, sleek-haired Dr. Herbert Graf who was working with Toscanini. In his 33 years Graf has won a doctorate from Vienna University for his thesis Richard Wagner as Stage Director, staged more than 50 operas including Modernist George Antheil's Transatlantic. Known for his direct, challenging technique which...
...landing gear, withdrew. With five planes left in the race, Capt. Stanley Halse, South African War ace took the lead. Apparently sure of victory, he ran into veldt fires, lost his way, cracked up with a dislocated arm on an ant-hill in Southern Rhodesia. A similar mishap overtook another entrant at Mpulungu near Lake Tanganyika, while a third was grounded at Khartoum with piston trouble, later crashed at Gwelo, Southern Rhodesia. This left two planes in the air, one a big, twin-motored Envoy flown by Pilot Max Findlay with three companions, the second a small single-engined Percival...
...picture, an impulsive chorus girl stranded in London, buys a newspaper to read on the boat to France, the headline says: AUSTRIAN ARCHDUKE ASSASSINATED AT SARAJEVO. The purpose of the picture, up to this point unrevealed, thereafter becomes clear. Other stories have shown some of the individual happenings which overtook individual farmers, bellringers, soda-jerkers, et al. at the outbreak of War. Suzy sets out to include in one picture all happenings which overtook all chorus girls stranded in all countries in all wars. Over a period of one and a half hours, it seems to succeed...
...short-wave sending and receiving sets. He took with him, on the MacMillan expedition of 1923, the first short-wave set ever operated in the Arctic. On big home sets Zenith's earnings grew from $121,000 in 1925 to $1,109,000 in 1929. When grief overtook the radio business in 1929, Zenith fell with saving promptness into the pattern of retrenchment. A new midget radio was developed for the low-price market, the cabinet division was closed down, and President McDonald slugged its overhead. By the time the first light of Recovery was visible, however, Zenith...