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In Baltimore raged a flagpole sitting craze for children. One "Azey" Foreman, 14, claimed a junior championship with a record of 10 days, 10 hr., 10 min., 10 sec. Soon rivals appeared. In a few days, 21 poles bore young perchers, applauded, tended, pointed out by ambitious parents. Unambitious parents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sitters | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

¶ The City of Baltimore announced sitters would need a $1 permit, poles would have to be approved by city engineers.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Sitters | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Sleek Frenchmen, great-throated Germans, hearty Englishmen, voluble Belgians, blond Swedes, good-natured Austrians, ill-tailored Czechs, pompous Italians, hungry Letts, solid Dutchmen, bland Danes, swarthy Poles, incomprehensible Lithuanians, dour Spaniards, excitable Serbs, fish-eating Finns, bony Norwegians, polyglot Swiss, egregious Estonians and 100% Americans-all these to the number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Grand Jamboree | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

Shortly after noon Germany time, 55 hours after she left Lakehurst, the Graf Zeppelin landed. A multitudinous crowd on the ground, fences, poles, roofs and steeples screamed joyously. Passengers debarked quickly. Count Albrecht Montgelas carried a fat bundle. It contained 52 ears of golden bantam corn, bon voyage gift of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Zeppelin Around the World | 8/19/1929 | See Source »

The Number Two event of the U. S. Polo year came to pass last week at Rumson, N. J., where fishhawks nest on the telephone poles and the Shrewsbury River winds placidly into the sea. The National Open tournament next month at Meadowbrook will be U. S. Polo's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Junior Polo | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

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