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...Transport, was tossed a baronetage and for equally inexplicable reasons named to a new post as Minister of Works and Public Buildings, charged with the eventual rebuilding of London. In as new Minister of Transport went sporty Lieut. Colonel John Theodore Cuthbert Moore-Brabazon, holder of the Royal Aero Club's No. 1 flying certificate, twice Parliamentary Secretary to the Transport Ministry, who is known around his greyhound racing tracks (in 1937 they paid 40% dividends) as "Brab...
Sirs: ... I did my bit in the last war. I had a year in France with the First Aero Squadron, A. E. F. My son is now approaching military age, as is the son of my brother. And when I say "to hell with the risk!-the time to do something is now," I am not actuated by a "nothing-to-lose" situation...
RALPH E. DE CASTRO (Distinguished Service Cross) ex-1st Lieut., 1st Aero Squadron...
...originality of Aero-painting-music-poetry Is created under enemy's fire...
...Futurist Manifesto to Liberate Ourselves From English Habits . . . tea-drinking, snobbery, golfing, pipe-smoking, bridge-playing and an inexplicable apathy toward women." Last week, as Benito Mussolini busily drafted his declaration of war, Signor Marinetti rallied round him his most formidable talents-which he currently calls aeropoetry, aeropainting and aero-music. Aeropainting has occasionally taken the form of a view of half an airplane; the other half, says the speed-loving Futurist, is going so fast it cannot be seen. Aero-music is usually recorded motor roars with interspersed backfires. It was to aeropoetry that Futurist Marinetti turned last week...