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...recent death of Edwin C. Musick, pilot of the airplane that fell into the Pacific near Pago Pago, is a blow to aviation's progress, as American flying has lost one of its oldest and ablest servants, Musick made his first flight in 1913 in a homemade plane, and during the World War he enlisted in the aviation section of the signal corps, and subsequently served as an instructor in the army. He was one of the three Americans who have received the Harmony trophy; Charles Lindbergh and Wiley Post being the other...
...object of the drive on Teruel was to pull down the full force of Franco's armies on Leftist heads, it succeeded last week beyond measure. With his toughest general, Miguel (siege of Oviedo) Aranda, and his ablest General, Jose Fidel (capture of Bilbao) Davila, leading the counterattack, El Caudillo himself reportedly took charge of the campaign from field headquarters 75 miles northwest at Calatayud...
Robert John Graham Boothby is one of the British Conservative Party's ablest young men who entered the House of Commons 13 years ago. aged 24, and served as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill (TIME, Nov. 27, 1924, et seq.). He told the House that President Roosevelt's policies "violate every economic principle," then issued a survey making his points in detail...
...picture to its end. Last fortnight, however, Cardinal O'Connell beat palm on palm while sitting through a film brought to his house by George Kraska, manager of Boston's highbrow Fine Arts Theatre, and Rev. Michael Joseph Ahern, S. J., one of New England's ablest Jesuits. The picture was Monastery, a European religious documentary film, the better part of which was made by Robert Alexandre of Pathe Cinema de France, who directed Cloistered, first picture ever made in a convent (TIME, June 1, 1936). Dedicated to Cardinal O'Connell, with his express permission, Monas...
Handicapped by the graduation of its two ablest players, Captain Johnny Harkness and heavyweight Bill Glendinning, an aggressive wrestling team faces an unimposing M. I. T. squad on the Tech mats today. Brilliant Yardling grapplers expect to topple the Crimson and Gray Freshmen in the same meet...