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...weather, the terrain, the supply of game put an element of luck into bird-dog trials that even the long three-hour runs in the National cannot wholly counterbalance. When Henry M. Curry's Homewood Flirtatious, paired with Doctor Blue Willing, found eight coveys and two singles on the first day of the trials, the judges might have suspected her of being merely fortunate until they saw her in the brief 30-minute runoff. Then paired with Andrew G. C. Sage's Sulu. Homewood Flirtatious found her first covey 50 seconds after she was put down. Two minutes...
...plane made one three-hour flight yesterday, starting at 4:56 a.m. It soared 170 miles out over the Pacific through fog banks, contacting ships to establish its course. Then, with its windows blackened to give complete "blind flying" conditions, it took off at 1:45 p.m. for another seaward flight, returning...
With painful concentration, two uneducated carpenters in the little courthouse at Flemington, N. J. last week watched and listened to a brawny scientist from the Wisconsin woods. From the witness stand Arthur Koehler, head of the Federal Forest Products Laboratory at Madison, was delivering a three-hour illustrated lecture on wood. Carpenter Bruno Richard Hauptmann, the German stowaway accused of kidnapping and killing Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr., paid close attention because his life was at stake. Carpenter Liscom Case, Juror No.11, listened and looked carefully because he knew that the other jurors would respect his judgment on a vital aspect...
...Instead of asking him literary questions, they asked his opinion of NRA. Said General Hugh S. Johnson, author of juveniles: "It is dead as a dodo ?and that is extinct." Then, by way of literary gossip, he dropped the fact that the day before he had had a three-hour talk with President Roosevelt. What that talk concerned the President revealed two days later when he announced: "The time has come to take the profit out of war." To take the profit out of war the President appointed a special committee headed by General Johnson and Bernard Mannes Baruch...
...Washington office, trying to find out when their great Western carrier would be reorganized. Last week's meeting at the Down Town Association was called by MOP's trustees. Mr. Jones and Mr. Van Sweringen were the most important guests at the luncheon that led off the three-hour session...