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...about four years blind flying, now called instrument flying, has been a commonplace of U. S. air transport. Day after day planes ride the waves of radio beacons, staying unerringly on course when the pilot can see nothing beyond the cockpit window. But the radio beacon can guide a plane only to a point above its destination. If the airport is hidden by fog or sleet, the plane may crash. Hence the Government still forbids a passenger plane to fly into an airport where the ceiling is under...
...readers. Founded by Boston merchants, its ownership is vested in 1,049 shares, currently priced at $400 and quoted every Thursday among unlisted securities. By buying a share you become a "Proprietor" and may roam at will through the dingy-faced, bronze-doored building at No. 10 1/2 Beacon Street, across from the Bellevue Hotel and in front of old Granary burying ground. The Athenaeum's interior was remodeled in 1913 but it is still mellow, musty. Its most famed room is the Scruple Room, so-called because the large collection of pornographic books it contains is catalogued with...
...columns of the Chicago Tribune, which stated that Harvard's attempt to procure Wesley Fisher as basketball coach and assistant football coach was a timely gesture. It commented further that Harvard had changed its mind a few years ago about being more content to have a football team of Beacon Hill blood than one of South Boston Irish, and lauded this offer to Fisher as an extension of a slowly growing policy to recognize people other than New Englanders. It stated that this particular instance of the policy indicated perhaps that Harvard would rather lose to Notre Dame...
...director of Old Colony and United Fruit. He is famed for his ability to mix Jamaica's famed planters' punch (one part lime, two parts syrup, three parts rum), is a moving spirit in the Club of Odd Volumes, whose headquarters is a former stable on Beacon Hill. He has written three books on the Caribbean, owns many an odd volume, belongs to a dozen learned societies and most of Boston's swank clubs. He likes to sail and fish. He is the only member of the United Fruit directorate whose father was a member...
Continental ("Powerful as the Nation"), the year's conservative newcomer, calls its four the ''Beacon" and its sixes "Ace" and "Flyer...