Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing outside because canvas covered the windows, ignored wheel and rudder bar completely, merely twiddled a few knobs on the dashboard. Last week, with this technique producing 24 perfect landings out of every 25 at empts, United Airlines announced it had finally devised a practicable method of landing "blind...
...Flying blind is nothing new. All trans port pilots do it as a matter of course, letting a robot pilot keep the plane on the flying beam radioed from each major airport. Landing blind is another matter. First done in 1929 by Major James Harold Doolittle while a safety man watched from an open cockpit, it was not successfully executed solo until 1932 when Captain Albert F. Hegenberger managed it at Dayton. Since then, though many a method has been tried for commercial use, none has proved satisfactory enough to permit planes to take-off & land when fog shuts down...
Like the famed blind men who examined the vast contours of an elephant with widely variant results, the four biographers bring in antipodal reports on their huge subject. Following William Randolph Hearst from his abbreviated career at Harvard, through his early publishing ventures in California, his entry into New York, his pre-War triumphs and present stormy twilight. Authors Lundberg, Carlson & Bates liberally plaster Publisher Hearst with controversial tar, while Mrs. Older is equally generous in coating her hero with sympathetic whitewash. Some contrasting findings on the character & career of Mr. Hearst...
...wind. The dramatics personae includes a mother who is so devoted to her mysterious infant that she places no value upon the lives of the child's nursemaids; a father whose sole energies are absorbed in his relentless pursuit of the poor nurses; a servant who is blind, about seven feet tall and as ugly as his disposition. There are sundry other characters moving about with appropriate mystery their evils to perform. There is a mysterious old tower which houses, one is cryptically informed, some of the weirdest specimens of taxidermical skill, a dilapidated old boat landing where sport...
...three great canvases Canaletto showed Venice of the fine buildings, clear, speckled sunlight, gondolas, nobles in skirted coats, poor fishermen, dogs, but no filth. Pietro Longhi charmingly showed the noble nonentities at home, drinking coffee, playing cards and Blind-Man's-Buff, attending a noblewoman who has faked a swoon. Francesco Guardi picks out with an astonishingly sparkling and impressionistic use of light the lagoons of Venice. Of Tiepolo, greatest of them all, last week's show included but two examples, the better a slick, overdramatic Crucifixion...