Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most exciting season in Frank Black's career was 1936-37. With the Carnation Milk program to direct in Chicago Monday nights and the Magic Key in Manhattan Sundays, he commuted by air between the two cities for 58 weeks. To give air travel its due, he never missed an engagement. But in those 58 weeks, he "ran the entire gamut of airplane adventure except for being killed." He was gashed and kayoed when bumpy air over the troublesome Nittany Mountains conked him against an overhead baggage rack. He once watched ambulances gather below him at Newark when...
...painted a series of pictures of jumbled roofs and houses which suggested to him a whole new method. Liking nothing so Puch as new methods, on his return to Paris he went to work on it. Cezanne had patiently toiled for years to realize on canvas the solidity of air and landscape by means of delicately placed little patches and planes of color. Cubism put roller skates on this technique...
...inner pocket and fastened with a safety pin. He also had liver and stomach trouble that has persisted ever since. Moving into i studio apartment on the Boulevard de Clichy with at last some actual comfort, he worked furiously, with less gaiety, with a beginning of the bitter, abstracted air which characterized him later. In 1912 he moved to Montparnasse. In 1914, saddened by the departure of most of his riends for the War, he left Paris to live in the suburb of Montrouge...
...gauges and gadgets to check, calls each off to his co-pilot as he goes so that nothing is missed. Before he taxies away from the line he has another score or two of check jobs to do, is thereafter kept busy, on the take-off and in the air and returning to land with a complicated set of controls...
What they witnessed was perhaps the most beautiful performance of ski jumping ever seen in the U. S. Slanting through the air, bending forward obliquely from his ankles, Reidar Andersen outjumped all his rivals (193 ft., 197 ft.), so impressed the judges that he was awarded 234.45 points, just 5.55 short of the highest score possible in a tournament...