Word: airings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with the husband of the blonde he has taken to the mountains. Adolphe Menjou, who talks throughout the picture with a French accent, although in private life his inflection is thoroughly native, makes a suave, satiric portrait out of the role. Best shot: Menjou. exhausted by exercise and mountain air, thumping with his cane on the bedroom door of his inamorata and uttering protests of passion while he eats a sandwich...
...National Broadcasting Co.'s chain. She was to give one of her many endorsements. Temperamental, she at first attempted to call off her appearance, then arrived at the studio a half-hour before her time, indignantly departed when informed that she could not immediately go on the air. Radio men, including Mr. Sarnoff, followed her to Manhattan's Ambassador, argued earnestly, then acidly. When it was pointed out that Her Majesty was accustomed to having her will accepted as law, Mr. Sarnoff replied: "From our standpoint, Her Majesty is merely a paid entertainer...
...air is not yet so thickly filled but that it can be used as a publicity medium by people with money enough to "pioneer" it. Last spring Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the Chicago Tribune; New York Daily News and nickel-weekly Liberty, rode around the Caribbean in a Sikorsky christened Liberty for benefit of press.* Last week Mr. Patterson's cousin-partner, Robert Rutherford McCormick, sent another Sikorsky from Chicago northeastward. This plane was supposed to fly a Great Circle course to Berlin for the glory of the Chicago Tribune ("world's greatest newspaper"), whose aviation editor...
...unlike a small boy was Publisher McCormick when, having been "sold" the 'Untin' Bowler stunt, he found he could not obtain the services of Pilot Carl Ben Eielson, most experienced arctic air navigator alive (Wilkins expeditions). Pilot Eielson, engaged by Aviation Corp., was about to depart for Alaska when Mr. McCormick telephoned to Manhattan from Chicago to persuade, demand, then storm because he could not have...
Those few flyers who have been able to get seven miles above the earth have been at the top of the earth's atmosphere layer. They have been able to stay there only a few moments, for the temperature is 75 degrees below Fahrenheit zero and the air-pressure is one-eighth of what man is built to endure. Nor could the thin air sustain the planes or sufficiently burn the fuel...