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...would never "write a novel worth opening." Last week readers who had long since shut Herrick's old-fashioned novels were opening Vardis Fisher's latest book with mingled anticipation and dread. After reading the first two volumes of his U. S. tetralogy (In Tragic Life, Passions Spin the Plot), they knew they could expect a vicariously agonizing experience, reported with such rare and serious candor that it would give them a painfully interesting three hours. Author Fisher is trying to write an honest book. Readers of the first three installments will admit, some wryly and some with...
When Ruth Page was a 12-year-old in Indianapolis she saw Anna Pavlowa dance. Then & there she determined to wear fancy costumes and spin on her toes some day. Three years later Ruth Page was touring in Pavlowa's own company...
...owned a plane ever since. In the autumn of 1929 he observed in his logbook that he had missed only eleven days' flying that year. For fun, he decided to try flying every day. In rain, shine, snow and fog, he went up daily for a 15-minute spin. Even when sub-zero weather grounded the airmail Dr. Brock took off. In dead of winter snowplows cleared runways for him. When he came down ice was chopped from his wings...
...Ride- At St. Ansgar, Iowa last week were gathered 2,000 people to see the town's first Fourth of July celebration in 20 years. They saw a plane lose a piece of wing fabric, spin dizzily into the town's main street, burst spectacularly into flames. Incinerated were the pilot and four joyriders, one a woman...
...given recently when all the members of this same 1914 crew that won the Grand Challenge Cup on the Thames that year held a reunion at the Newell Boathouse. Every one of the men who sat in the victorious boat was present at the reunion and took a trial spin on the Charles. In all but one of the cases the man had increased considerably in weight, but critics said they showed excellent form...