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...Stinson Detroiter, similar to the ship in which Edward F. Schlee and William S. Brock started around the world. In their map case was a short note. It told of the Old Glory's SOS. The message had come just before Tully and Medcalf left; friends feared to shake their nerves on the take-off by telling them. Somewhere out at sea they must open the map case, and learn how somewhere into the tossing water beneath them another ship had tumbled from the air. Whether or not they ever read the note was not known. The Sir John Carling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notes, Sep. 19, 1927 | 9/19/1927 | See Source »

Later, an old grisled man, one George Surfin, of Dryden, N. Y., walked up to the President. Said he: "I have shaken hands with Lincoln, McKinley, Roosevelt; now I want to shake hands with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Sep. 12, 1927 | 9/12/1927 | See Source »

Officials of Dayton accompanied Colonel Lindbergh while he visited the National Military Home to shake hands with veterans, while he placed a wreath on the grave of Wilbur Wright, while he attended a dinner given in his honor at which Mayor Allen C. McDonald presided. At this dinner, Mayor McDonald presented the aviator with a scroll, signed by himself, saying, "From the Citizens of Dayton ... on the occasion of his official visit ... as an evidence of their appreciation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: In Dayton | 8/15/1927 | See Source »

Could any man who has joined with Sir Harry Lauder in such a chorus shake off the spell sufficiently to speak ill of him ? Sir Harry's friends would doubtless deny the possiblility; but in Edinburgh last week at a meeting of the Town Council, Mr. Councilman Gilzean struck the table a blow with his doubled fist and shouted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Sir Harry Flayed | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

...Cannot shake off a Presbyterian feeling about tournament golf? that the winner is predestined, an instrument of fate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Sportsman | 8/8/1927 | See Source »

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