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...changed, in weeks. So before you could say your prayers or take a final or even find a pretty debutante, there we were at the circus with peanuts crowding their impulsive way down the leathery necks of mauve pachyderms, horses, horses, and my rooommate absent mindedly dangling a red balloon over his right tonsil...
...where the mercury solidifies after 39° below Zero; up where the air is so thin that one's body feels as puffy as a cloud?sat Capt. Hawthorne C. Gray in the basket of a free balloon. Except for the glass of his goggles he was covered with fur and leather. A machine pumped electrically-warmed oxygen into his lungs. His instruments, he' said, indicated an altitude of 41,000 feet (almost eight miles). This was higher than any man had ever been,* either by free balloon or airplane. The previous record for a free balloon was 35,433 feet...
Letting gas out of his balloon, Captain Gray began to descend. At 8,000 feet, he found himself falling faster than would be pleasant for a landing, so he adjusted his parachute, stepped out into nothingness, floated to the ground uninjured at Golden Gate, Ill., 100 miles from Scott Field (Belleville, Ill.) his starting point. His trip to the outer edge of the world and back took two and one-half hours...
...Author. Born in Milwaukee 47 years ago, Felix Riesenberg was educated in the N. Y. Nautical Schoolship St. Mary's, the U. S. S. Chase, and, after eight years at sea, in the engineering school at Columbia. He tried for the North Pole with Explorer Wellman in the balloon, America. He helped build the Catskill Aqueduct and was municipal engineer of the Borough of Queens. Then he superintended the New York State Nautical School and commanded the U. S. S. Newport during the War. In 1924, he turned altogether to writing, having already published two sea stories and a textbook...
...like, read Earl Tinker as Pen rod grown up. Laurence Ogle might be Willie Baxter, twice Seventeen. Or you can regard The Plutocrat as simply a new Tarkington vehicle full of up-to-date types, sent out parading to show people how they look. The balloon tires of burlesque protect anyone it runs over from being injured. Mme. Momoro is the chauffeuse, adroit aloof, intelligent, guiding the satire until it is time for her to step out of it a human being like the rest. Mr. Tarkington has written books of more uniform merit but never one with more admirable...