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...seater Army bombing plane, tearing through space at more than two miles per minute, Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald returned last week from his Scottish home at Lossiemouth for the reopening of Parliament after Easter recess (450 miles in about four hours). On this wild air ride, which he has made a habit during the past two years, Mr. MacDonald serenely perused Gifts of Fortune and Hints for Those About to Travel by Henry Major Tomlinson. Miss Ishbel MacDonald piloted a plane for half an hour last week, aspires (so she said) to become her father's regular pilot...
...English professor, he became president of Trinity College in 1910. His campus nickname: "Sis." His fellow townsmen remember that when the children of Benjamin Newton Duke were young?Mary, and "Angy" (Angier), who fell from a yacht tender at Newport in 1923 and was drowned?Dr. Few used to ride with them in their ponycart. Like many another Duke official, he is a Rotarian. A friend of North Carolina's hard-bitten little Methodist ex-Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons, he was like him a leading Hoovercrat. Many North Carolinians believe Dr. Few to be a shrewd, astute politician backed...
...which The Big Feller is alone with Miss Sidney; the derby hat of a murdered beer-runner, with his gilt initials prominent in the crown, floating down a city river; the closing episode in which the gangsters who were going to take Gary Cooper and Sylvia Sidney for a ride are themselves taken for a ride. The story is made valid by such details and is no less properly in the Hugo tradition if several of its episodes are entirely incredible, the plot tenuous. When the action makes orderly headway it is concerned with the difficulties that oppose the happiness...
...ideal condition for having well-balanced musical tones, according to an observation by Dr. Vern Oliver-Knudsen, acoustic expert at the University of California. In ordinary weather, low tones carry much better than high ones, which have less energy. In humid air the high tones ride on the particles of suspended moisture, helping the hearer to perceive the complete orchestration...
...week wore on, the swarms grew thicker. They swept through Mississippi, into Arkansas and Louisiana. Hordes of the stinging females would select a mule or cow, settle on it, ride out its frantic, bucking efforts to escape, and leave it dead. Reports began to come in: 125 mules killed in Coahoma County alone. There two days later were 400 mules and cattle dead. Around Helena, Ark., 500 farm animals expired in the lowlands. More & more deaths were recorded to the southward...