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Died. Rear Admiral Albert C. Read, 80, commander of the first plane to fly the Atlantic; of pneumonia; in Miami. On May 8, 1919, Read and 17 other Navy flyers clambered into three wood-and-canvas seaplanes, and headed out from Rockaway, L.I., bound for Plymouth, England. Two of the planes were hammered down by squalls off the Azores, but Read somehow kept his NC4 aloft and eventually set down in Plymouth-after 23 days, seven stops, 3,936 miles. Actual flying time: 52 hr. 3 min. for an average of 75.6 m.p.h...
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Robert H. Azbug of Great Neck, N.Y. (History); Jonathan Boorstin of Chicago, Ill. (History); Bruce L. Bush of Chicago, Ill. (Physics); A.C. Dearing 3rd of Louisville, Ky. (Chemistry and Physics); Jeffrey B. Rauch of Far Rockaway, N.Y. (Mathematics) and John G. Rhodes Jr. of Tampa, Fla. (Fine Arts...
...have little more to offer than any boozily pattering straight man with a boyish twinkle and a set of imitation Crosby-Como tonsils. Indeed, a lot of his enemies and some of his friends thought that Dino would likely end his career croaking in cocktail lounges from Far Rockaway to Skokie. But there seems to be quite a market for patter and twinkle these days. Variety reported last week that Martin, 49, from his TV variety series, record royalties, club dates and movie lucre, earns nearly $5,000,000 per annum...
Cool Poetry. "Macadam, gun-grey as a tunny's belt/Leaps from Far Rockaway to Golden Gate," is was this America on the move, ironing out its regional peculiarities and aswarm immigrant energy, that artists were now forced consider, and most of them found viewing best when equipped with foreign spectacles. While the newspaper-trained illustrators who became the ashcan school saw ugliness as a police court scene, their friend. Maurice Prendergast, went to Paris, returned to paint Manhattan's Central Park in the pure colors of a soft-hued tapestry...