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After hunting alligators, but getting none, fishing, but catching none, being reported as on the verge of nervous breakdown, but having none, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh went down for a spin in a submarine. Then bidding good-bye to Panama and his vacation, he put on his goggles and returned to work...
Flying in the face of Providence, and disregarding the combination of Friday the 13th, Boat 13 was the first shell to take the water. Three University eights, one 150-pound boat, and a Freshman crew comprised the fleet that paddled up and down for a brief spin. The seatings of the crews were all chosen entirely by chance...
...Cricklewood Airdrome (near London) a plane slid lazily along the air, slower, stalling; the lazy tail began to drop. Such weary antics precede the tail spin, horrible whirl to death of many an aviator, among the heaviest hazards of aviation. Spectators thrilled. But the plane above Cricklewood did not spin. Instead it hung in the air under perfect lateral control, nosed down a trifle, regained flying speed...
...main wing and in front of the rear ailerons, spectators found a tiny curved plane when the machine landed. Automatically extending itself by air pressure on the wing, the enlarged surface grips the air when the plane stalls; props it; forbids the wing dip which precedes the spin...
...Clive's excellent company of English caricaturists have all the material they need in Leslie Howard's farce of "Murray Hill." Two old maids with an attractive unmarried niece, a drunken nephew from Chicago and his impersonator from Princeton make the wheels spin around until one of the older ladies goes on a prolonged tear with the nephew, the impersonator is engaged to the niece, and the old family lawyer makes appropriate motions of merriment and despair at the goings-on in the dignified house on Murray Hill...