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...amusing to watch the propaganda of the elder Roosevelt stick its head up, break out a Rooseveltian double-barreled grin, and shout "Bully!" Balloon Buster Luke* is here not so much an aviator as one who loudly condemned our shameful inactivity prior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heroes | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

...Gribble was said to have supervised the direction of the present production, many faults could be found in the manner of its production. The leading members of the cast sometimes flung their lines about with just such misplaced vigor as a hammer thrower might use in hurling a toy balloon; they reached for comedy like a first baseman trying to catch a butterfly. Josephine Hull played Mrs. Rodney with great cunning, while Dorothy Stickney, who was a mad murderess in Chicago, brought down cheers for making Claudia Kitts as raucous as a finger nail dragged across a blackboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 16, 1928 | 4/16/1928 | See Source »

...machine consisted of two blocks of wood-"you put the bug you wanted to kill on one block and squashed him with the other." Rental $2. Tony disappeared when the Postoffice got inquisitive, and left Deacon Miscombe holding the bag. In War, Aviator Tony annoyed a German sausage balloon and shot down a Fokker plane with the words: "Jeeze, what'd you want to pick...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FICTION: Parachute | 2/27/1928 | See Source »

Kindly inform me as to the maximum altitude obtained by any aviator whether in airplane or free balloon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: In Cincinnati | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

...maximum altitude was 38,559 ft., reached by Lieut. C. C. Champion in 1927. Capt. H. C. Gray of the U. S. Air Service was credited with a, balloon altitude of 44,000 in 1927, but this figure cannot be verified as Capt. Gray was killed during the flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: In Cincinnati | 2/20/1928 | See Source »

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