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...last Helen Park remembered. She had seen a notice that, for the best 250-word letter by a New England college student or graduate telling why he or she wanted to visit California, a free trip by air would be given by a Miss Lydia Pinkham Gove of Salem, Mass. Helen Park could remember nothing of what she had written except the tremendous reason, "just for the ride." It was astonishing, disconcerting. . . . Helen Park took the fuming lady at her table...
...night in the waitresses' dormitory at The Balsams they discussed the miracle far into the night. Who on earth was Lydia Pinkham Gove? Why should she be handing out free airplane trips to California? One alert girl remembered reading in the newspapers that a Lydia Pinkham Gove of Salem, Mass., had just flown home from California with the pastor's assistant of the Second Unitarian Church of Salem, one James Luther Adams. Both passengers had been wildly enthusiastic about their jaunt. The newspaper, a local sheet, had called it "an important epoch in aviation history...
...seldom that I give expression to a criticism of matter appearing in the press, but the absolute lack of necessity of the reference which you made to Greensboro in your article on Winston-Salem, p. 18, TIME, Aug. 23, impels...
...Greensboro Daily News quoted from TIME: "You are struck, on your first visit to Winston-Salem, by the fact that it is off the main railroad line, up in the hills. You have to change trains at Greensboro, a second-rate town (considering its advantages) where, dazzling and unexpected above an ill-kempt street lined with shabby buildings, a single white skyscraper towers up, its facade handsome with carving, its superior ground-floor shops the heralds of Greensboro's delayed awakening." The News commented editorially: "While five million dollars are being spent on four buildings, not to mention...
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