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...able airplane pilot, has logged some 1,000 hr. at the stick. He started gliding in 1929. At the July meet he persuaded his father to go up with him for a sail in his Dragonfly, a handsome two-place job built by famed Gliderman Hawley Bowlus. A sudden shift of wind at the moment of launching spilled the Dragonfly into a clump of bushes, a wreck. Rescuers heard Father du Pont ask calmly: "How do you get out of this violin case?" Neither was hurt. Few days later Pilot du Pont soared a new sailplane...
MURDER IN TRINIDAD - John W. Vandercook-Crime Club ($2). Practically forced into crime, a young professor follows the footsteps of an international investigator into the secret underworld of Trinidad. Tagging along through mangrove swamp and sudden death, he learns the jest of murder and the intrigue of politics. DRURY LANE'S LAST CASE-Barnaby Ross-Viking ($2). All the Shakespearian lore of Drury Lane is necessary to explain the theft and return of a rare volume from a museum. Mixed identity and murder place in the action, as does a vital clue dated four centuries ago. The motive...
...opening of the 19th century, the number has risen gradually to reach 200, showing that war at this time is 200 times as intense as during the middle ages. However, during the second half of the nineteenth century, there is a considerable drop. This is the reason for the sudden appearance at this time of many theories concerning the approach of the millenium and the era of everlasting peace. However, at this time, the index number was still considerably higher than during the middle ages...
...modern engines which once warmed up, do not cut out. Transport operators hoot at the idea of danger in landing under power. They point out that at any moment during a landing, a pilot may need to gun his engines full blast to avoid collision, or to overcome a sudden shift of wind. Unless the engines have been turning over constantly, they will be choked and useless when he needs them. Hence the pilot "gooses" the motors with short bursts as he comes slanting down to the field...
Though they dressed Peter Christopolus up and tried to make him one of the family with effusive demonstrations of affection, again before press cameras, the Strengs soon decided that Peter would not do. They called him "disobedient" and "arrogant." They thought he was too cocky about his sudden good fortune. They said he was sullen and grudging about helping with household tasks. One morning last week Dyer Strengs awakened Peter Christopolus, told him he was to go back to the Boys' Home in Omaha. Later he explained to newshawks : "We gave him his chance and he failed to make...