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...municipal airport at Oakland, Calif., early in the morning with favorable weather. In the afternoon they hungered, but were unable to find their chicken sandwiches, soup and coffee (which some cautious helpmate had wrapped in a tarpaulin and tucked under the plane's plotting board). When their radio beacon compass went awry, that night, they used the stars. Next morning they landed at Wheeler Field near Honolulu, having completed, in 25 hours, 50 minutes, the longest over-water hop* ever made by man. As honest servants of the U. S. Government, they promptly refused a $10,000 offer made...
Their earth inductor compass had fits of running wild, their radio had become disabled, they were fast running out of gasoline-when suddenly at 3 a. m. they saw the sea-coast and the flicker of a lighthouse beacon beneath them. That was the moment when Commander Byrd scribbled: "We are going to land." It was safer to drop into the sea than to crash into unyielding, un known, fog-blanketed land, he decided...
Thousands of South Australians,* peacefully replete with dinner, tuned their radio sets idly one evening last week to pick up Station 5-CL at Adelaide. A little jazz, they thought, might assist digestion; and at worst there would be the weather report and a bedtime tale. Suddenly, as Station 5-CL came in on loud speakers and head phones, the digestion of numerous listeners was upset by a shock so powerful that Adam's apples bounded in male throats and robust women clutched at their hearts...
Bottomland. Because Clarence Williams, Negro radio entertainer, is popular "on the air," he thought himself capable of presenting a successful Negro revue. This was a mistake. His show, full of poor white pretensions, ineffective gusto, and brown whirligigs will probably not last long enough to harm greatly his reputation...
...Reiner will open the season, will conduct more concerts than any of the others. All these musicians have been heard in Philadelphia with the exception of Sir Thomas Beecham, who is best known in England, whence he recently departed in disgust because the government subsidized radio concerts...