Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stunting by Germany's famed Ace Ernst Udet, who can pick a handkerchief from the ground with a hook on his wingtip...
...America - from a qualitative point of view - is rather intimately tied up with this very distinctive program. ALDEN B. MILLS Chicago, Ill. I congratulate you and your company on your farsightedness on tying up with the editors of TIME in returning to the air "The March of TIME," the ace program of radio. . . . . . This departure from the established policy of sponsored radio programs may be an advertising precedent and an experiment, but to the hosts of radio listeners it is welcome news. ... JAMES UPSHER SMITH Minneapolis, Minn. It is gratifying indeed to know that "The March of TIME" will...
...with tall Marconi mainsails and cockpits just big enough for two-started smoothly enough off Long Beach, Calif, last week. Young Eddie Fink of Long Beach, the defending champion, won the first race in his Movie Star II. Adrian Iselin II, the Bacardi Cup holder, who had brought his Ace, his crinkly smile, his old sailing hat and his crony Ed Willis from Port Washington. L. I., snooped out most of the light breezes in the second. Fink won the third race and seemed to be on the last tack to retaining his championship when the race committee reached...
...young Ital- ian stunter who last fortnight broke his own world's endurance record for upside-down flying with a 3 hr., 8 min. flight from St. Louis to Chicago, did a topsy-turvy climbing bank and "dead stick'' dive. Major Ernst Udet, famed German War ace, sent his Flamingo teetering crazily across the field, on the third try neatly snatched a handkerchief off the ground with a wing tip. Johnny Miller looped an autogiro...
DEATH BEHIND THE DOOR - Victor MacClure-Houghton Mifflin ($2). Scotland Yard's ace detective, on a busman's holiday, scents murder in accidental death. A motive of art-appreciation is proven posthumously, in a solution by confession...