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...counterparts. The little pitchers have big ears and the catchers wait anxiously every day to hear what is doing with big league catchers in Chicago. To them, the Yankees have always been as splendid as ancestors and the Giants have been a team of nine enormous men, as swift as birds, galloping upon a desert of turf and walloping a moonlike ball with tree-trunks...
...other side. On he goes over the bridge to the Left Bank and there he stops again, this time for an Anise de Lozo and following effects are appropriately blurred. A solo violin suggestive of charming broken English is first to clear away the haze. There comes a swift transition and Gershwin has the blues, bad blues, until he meets a friend, starts off again jauntily to a final noisy walking theme that foretells an hilarious evening...
...peer of all spectacle sponsors, the paramount figure of America's entertainment impresarios, the amazingly adroit F. Ziegfeld. ... It is swift, sure and steadily sparkling. It is better described as one of the grandest things Mr. Ziegfeld has ever done. He is truly a great man, this Ziegfeld. This [reviewer] . . . kneels at his toes and thanks him for having had a superb evening. . . ."-Walter Winchell, in the Evening Graphic...
...Brilliant example of the air industry's swift enterprise. Young R. B. Snowden Jr. of Memphis, Tenn., reorganized Command-Aire, Inc., only last October to make biplanes at Little Rock, Ark., to sell at $3,250. Sales directed at business and college men have made Command-Aire a leader in the industry. *At $2,400 without motor. TIME, Dec. 3, erroneously printed the price as $24,000. †The Gypsy is the third British motor to be made in this country The others: Cirrus, similar to the Gypsy; the Bristol Jupiter air-cooled radial...
...Wales, across the Antarctic Continent from Deception Island (among the South Shetlands), where Explorer Sir George Hubert Wilkins, a fortnight ago, made tests for his South Polar flight (TIME, Dec. 3). The Wilkins Expedition is rather a tour de force, another example of intrepidity. Of necessity a swift affair, its scientific observations can be only bird...