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Again Flyers James Medcalf and Terry Tully jumped up from London, Ontario, and pointed east. This time they fought fog. Far south of their course and unable to proceed they surrendered to the fog. In a farmer's field at Washburn, Me., the Sir John Carlmo came down undamaged...
Like most children of the professional play world, to whom five minutes' cordial applause somehow connotes complete triumph over Fortune, and a crisp five-dollar bill in the hand the equivalent of Croesus' sceptre, she has arrived at old age forlorn. Her house in Paris is tenanted by...
During the week, School and Society (weekly) published parts of a research report from the University of Michigan, which contained suggestive findings for college-entrance authorities to ponder. It was not surprising to learn from this report that students who had done well in high school had done well in...
Travelers have observed that the Persian is apt to be tolerably pious, quite up to Occidental average in sexual morality, easygoing, indo lent, not particularly patriotic and almost joyfully unencumbered by anything remotely approaching an Occidental's concept of financial integrity. An official or a rich man has immemorially been...
Socially well-posted U. S. Negroes know that at Rome resides the most ancient and patrician aristocracy in Europe. Prince Massimo of Rome is an undisputed descendant of the Roman General Quintus Fabius Maximus, "The Delayer" (Third Century B. C.). The family of the late Prince Scipione Borghesi is both...