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...prejudice surmounted? Is, in short, Agee's extraordinary, and lyrical compassion a feat of overcoming, or is it the bleeding of a liberal heart? If the answer is the first of these, and I suspect it is, then Let Us Now Praise is a remarkable study of the blindspot in a bigotry overcome, that is, its embarrassment to condemn, where condemnation incites the powers of rebellion which sheer sympathy does not have the cruelty to demand...
Starring speedy take-it-back Van Vort and his own reverse-it-all play, the Crimeditors will rely on minute timing and blindspot precision blocking. Months of practice have molded a powerful outfit, and the linetypes already clink merrily with a victory tune...
...Alaska on a snow-covered field just outside of Fairbanks, with its railroad and clustered wooden buildings, two Fokker monoplanes were finally assembled last week. Captain George H. Wilkins, leader of the U. S. aero expedition which is to fly over the Polar blindspot to Spitsbergen (TIME, March 15, SCIENCE), called to his aides. They were Major Thomas G. Lanphier and Lieutenant Carl B. Eielson, the pilots, and A. M. ("Sandy") Smith. All was set for the first tests. But Captain Wilkins would not commence until the crowd of spectators-newspapermen, townsmen and women of Fairbanks-dispersed. He was afraid...
...least three other expeditions plan to see the "blindspot" from heavier-than-air machines. Explorers Donald B. MacMillan and Roald Amundsen have both warned against the use of planes, the Yankee agreeing with the Norseman, in view of similar experiences, that dirigibles are safer. Amundsen is going this year in the Italian-built dirigible Norge, which spent the fortnight undergoing tests at Rome. As he left the U. S. last week, Amundsen gave the airplanes one chance of success in 1,500; felt his one chance was 100% good on a 50-hour dirigible flight...