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Dates: during 1920-1929
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In Los Angeles, one W. E. Praudweine, knife in hand, set after a large turkey. The bird, angered, kicked the knife into Praudweine's arm, severing an artery. Then it leaped upon the bleeding man, viciously tore his shirt to tatters.
In Tampas, Col., Mrs. Thomas Wheeler listened to the radio in her hotel lobby. On the program was a hog-calling contest being broadcast from Prairie View, Kan. At an especially eloquent call a pig broke out of its pen nearby and charged squealing into the lobby where it settled...
Last fortnight Duncan Phillips published for the first time a magazine named Art and Understanding. It is hereafter to appear twice a year. Called "A Phillips Publication," and written for the most part by the publisher himself, its illustrations are from canvases in the Phillips Gallery. There are also reprinted...
Again Costes. Round and round a giant's circle, droning on through the Provence mistral with a log of slowly waning fuel and gradually mounting flying time, last week went the Question Mark, red-painted French Breguet airplane, in search of a new endurance record. Piloted by Dieudonné...
This flight perhaps made Costes flyer-of-the-year. Three months ago he set another world-record, for airplane distance, with Maurice Bellonte from Paris to Tsitsihar, Manchuria, an airline of 4,910 miles made in the same ship with a more powerful motor (TIME, Oct. 14).