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...hope that he would become a minister. In the next ten years Author Gilbert Flatten (he had dropped his first name because people called him Willie) achieved no little success as a prolific writer of western thrillers for the Beadle & Adams publications. He was nearing the end of his rope of ideas when in 1895 Street & Smith, publishers, proposed the juvenile series about a single character who "should have a name like Dick Lightheart, Jack Harkaway, Gay Dashleigh." Author Patten, aspiring to be a playwright, seized upon the plan as a "potboiler." He conceived his hero: "His face was frank...
Meanwhile in the Belgica Capt. Ernest de Muyter (fourtimes winner) with Leon Coeckelbaerg fought lightning, snow and loss of altitude. All ballast gone, Coeckelbaerg slid down the drag rope into a tree to lighten the load, but the bag settled at Adams, Mass., a 435 mi. mark. For the co-pilot's heroism, disqualification was threatened...
...girl who combined tournament tennis with late dancing. She did not smoke or drink, went to bed nightly at 9:45, declared that she likes to make her own tennis dresses and that she had embroidered the Union Jack and Lion on her coat. Every morning she skipped a rope 700 times, and usually appeared on the courts in red sweaters and headbands because she said that red made her play better. She swept through her first matches with an ease that made onlookers sure it would take more than the routine competition in sight to beat...
...Tampa, Fla., Kimoto Toono, Japanese sailor, went ashore from his ship to spear small fish. So as not to lose his gig (spear), he fastened the end of the rope around his body. Then he sighted a 340-lb. jewfish, speared it, was pulled off the dock, out to sea, drowned. Next day searchers found Gigger Toono and his jewfish...
...brought forth the helicopter on which he had been working for four years with Curtiss engineers (TIME, June 30) a fault in the lubricating system prevented flight tests. Last week changes had been completed, but conditions were not yet right for outdoor flying. Impatient, youthful Inventor Bleecker tied a rope to the keel of the little machine inside its hangar at Valley Stream, Long Island. Then he started the motor, entered the cockpit, gently opened the throttle. The craft rose vertically from the hangar floor, hovered under the roof at the end of its tether, settled lightly to the floor...