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...finalists, four men and four women, went through their paces: three deadstick landings to a spot, two loops, a spin, two Immelman turns, two snap rolls-not prodigious feats, but calling for skill. Neatest performance was made by a woman, Mrs. Cecil W. ("Teddy") Kenyon of Waban, Mass. Pretty, blonde wife of a former transport pilot, Mrs. Kenyon received $5,000 and the title of champion airwoman. Not so good as Mrs. Kenyon at spot landings, but unsurpassed at aerobatics was an engaging young man named Felix William ("Bill") Zelcer, proprietor of Manhattan's famed White Horse Tavern...
...probing into the fundamental secretae of the universe-of light, electricity, gravity, matter-that the language of physicists is becoming metaphysical. Efforts to fit new discoveries to demonstrable theory, or to perform the converse, simply pile paradox on paradox. While U. S. probers have been mostly content to spin new riddles by unearthing new facts in their laboratories, European physicists have tried more & more of late, by sheer sweat of mind, to coordinate, to reconcile, to reduce the areas of conflict among observed phenomena. Last week U. S. readers of the British scientific journal Nature were apprised of an important...
...gets tipsy herself. Alec persuades his employer to give Terry a job. Terry gets drunk, makes embarrassing remarks about Alec's fondness for the employer's daughter. Finally one day when Annie is ashore trying to borrow money for new boilers, Terry takes the Narcissus for a spin in the harbor, rams a ferry boat while turning around to pick up a floating case of whiskey. The Narcissus has to be sold to pay the damages. Annie-by this time estranged from her son because she will not desert her inconvenient husband -is hired to stay...
...Ohio), a tax-supported institution with 87 teachers and 1,322 students, Akronites attending gratis. Nearest Akron has come to fame was when its Professor Walter Charles Kraatz was erroneously reported to have been sent, for observation, an alarm clock containing a spider that for three weeks attempted to spin a web from hour hand to minute hand. President Zook ran his University ably. He kept his political views to himself. He joined Rotary. He is a Methodist. He and Mrs. Zook have an adopted son, Charley, just out of high school...
...always steered in the direction which his bowsprit indicates." Napoleon telling Anthony why he does not like bankers: "And in another hundred years if I do not stop them they will own Europe - the world. Financiers cannot act. They never do anything. They are passive, they spin webs and every wind, blow peace blow war. brings them flies. They are not the fit repositories for power...