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Both Miss Alexander and Mr. Williams do their utmost for the piece, but a composite ghost it still remains. Brown Buddies. The opinion that Bill Robinson, "The Dark Cloud of Joy," is the world's greatest tap-dancer, announced at a recent convention of the American Association of Dance Masters (TIME, Sept. 8), is shared by many. For more than 30 years he pranced around Benjamin Franklin Keith's vaudeville circuit. Two years ago he entered musi-comedy with an appearance in Blackbirds of 1928. If he was not the first man to clog up and down...
...encampment is "Yearling Deadbeat." With the first class absent in Virginia, the post and its traditions are in the hands of the new third class for three weeks. During this time work is cut down to a minimum, and the third class enjoys its new Liberty to the utmost. To it is even given the important task of "welcoming" the new plebes and preparing them for the long period of training ahead of them. All too soon the first class returns to take over the reins, and then the serious work of the summer begins. The mornings are devoted...
...usually in the face of difficulties. As such it always possesses two characteristics: first, a certain superiority of aim; and, secondly, exceptional skill in execution." For Achievement three ingredients are necessary: the Wish, the Chance, the Man. Says Pitkin: a man should discover his capabilities, capitalize them to the utmost, but not try something for which nature has unfitted him. Many and varied are his examples of achievement, of nonachievement. Some of them...
...faster than any U. S. military planes except small pursuit craft. Machine guns are mounted fore & aft. It is primarily designed for long-range reconnaissance and photographic work. But at the Fokker plant in Teterboro, N. J. a plane nearly identical was being completed with the utmost secrecy. Reporter Bruce Gould of the New York Evening Post, who inadvertently happened upon it while on another mission, reported it to be "[a] pursuit-bomber . . . long nosed . . . rakish . . . bristling with armament;" its two bulging engines giving it a "frightful deep-sea monster expression...
...will, when convinced that the effort is worth while, exert your-selves to the utmost. A member of an athletic team will play his heart out to win. You will burn the midnight oil feverishly to pass an examination. But the constant, daily toil is more exacting. You may temporarily lose sight of the incentive; you may be diverted by pleasanter things. Your first problem, then, and it is yours alone, is to convince yourselves that steady application is worth while...