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Earle Elmer Meadows, 24, and William Healy Sefton, 22, pole-vaulted separately before they entered U.S.C. in 1933. Beginning at 10, Earle practiced with an old rug cane and clothesline strung up in his Little Rock front yard. Anxious to spur his son's aerial career, Father Meadows, a cloth manufacturer, offered him a nickel for every inch above 5 ft. that he could make. In 1932 when he was a high-school senior at Fort Worth, Earle cleared 13 ft. to establish a Texas scholastic record, 6½ in. less than the national interscholastic record Bill Sefton...
...waterfront of Bilbao last week, city flags still hung from flagstaffs flaunting the city's 700-year motto: INVINCIBLE. The quayside was under fire from Rightist artillery, only six miles away a terrific artillery and aerial barrage had blown a gaping hole in el gallo (the rooster), Bilbao's vaunted triple iron ring of trenches. Rightist troops and trucks were pouring through. Shouted an exultant staff officer above the roaring of field guns: ''Bilbao is ours already, we can take it today, tomorrow, or whenever we want...
...poor pilots, Chinese good; that the methodical Germans are best at bombing, refusing to be drawn out of formation under attack like the hot-headed Italians. Russians are said to be careless about such perfunctory details as keeping gas tanks full, but have a wild Cossack flair for aerial dogfighting. Most curious fact about Russian aviation is that the men who best demonstrate the Russian genius for conquering the air have made their greatest successes...
...ordinary telephones in homes, offices, or hotels, come to the nearest of these three stations by wire in the usual manner. At the stations they are taken up by a high frequency sending device and broadcast in an unusual manner. The waves do not leave the station via an aerial strung outside the transmitting building, but follow wires strung along the tracks, When they reach a point opposite the speeding train, the waves 'jump' to the aerial of the receiving set on the roof of the train...
Although the destruction of the Hindenburg three weeks ago was the most completely witnessed aerial disaster in history, the subsequent Department of Commerce inquiry at Lakehurst droned along inconclusively for two weeks until uprose a man who had been in Austria when the great dirigible burned. Although he had not seen the tragedy which cost 36 lives and $3,000,000,* wise old Dr. Hugo Eckener, world's No. 1 lighter-than-air authority, had spent a week looking at the wreckage, examining meteorological records, still and motion picture films, listening to the testimony of survivors and ground crew...