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...children and Henry Ford who had brought 150 moppets in busses to witness the spectacle. When the bag seemed reluctant to rise, airport hands helped by pushing up the gondola. The balloon drifted toward trees fringing the field, seemed certain to crash. Perched in the rigging, Mrs. Piccard frantically threw off lead ballast and the trees were cleared. She climbed inside. The bal loon drifted southeast across Lake Erie, slowly rose to ten miles. Radio communi cation with the ground was fragmentary. Mrs. Piccard worried because she could not see the ground for clouds. Gas was valved and the balloon...
Desertion of Harvard from Democratic ranks continued yesterday when ten professors threw their influence behind the governorship campaign of Gaspar G. Bacon '08, against former Mayor Curley. although Mr. Bacon is as outspoken in his criticism of the new deal as Mr. Curley is in its defense, it is not known if these men have also withdrawn their support from the Roosevelt policies...
...roll of honor of our factory. My wife Lida says 'Your success has been built upon my misfortunes.' I bought Lida a coat and a silk dress. Lida said 'I can't use your silk dress. I have nowhere to go.' And she threw it in my face. . . ." ". . . While I was busy with posters, flowers and parades ... I entirely forgot the existence of the man I love. . . ." Summing up all this Komsomolskaya Pravda recorded an evident conviction among Communist Youth that the tempo of their life blights marriage and makes proper child rearing well-nigh...
...South of Scranton was characterized by flat, bright colors, razor-sharp outlines. Rare indeed was the critic who dared to stand up and cheer for it. The New York Sun's Henry McBride, after a long description of his train trip to Pittsburgh during which a "sudden lurch" threw "an exceedingly handsome young woman'' into his arms, finally got around to saying: "The prize-awarding this year has been peculiarly indiscreet . . . there is sure to be an outcry at the bestowal of first prize and $1,500 of Mr. Carnegie's good money on such...
...most surprising upset, St. Mary's started off badly when Fordham's Maniaci intercepted a pass, made a mad 80-yd. dash for a touchdown in the first quarter. Harry ("The Horse'') Mattos tied the score with a touchdown in the next quarter, threw a pass to Erdelatz for another in the last. St. Mary's 14, Fordham...