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...Bluebird, the world's most powerful automobile, and its driver, Capt. Malcolm Campbell, arrived in the U. S. last week. Capt. Campbell had already driven Bluebird 214.7 m. p. h. He wanted to try at Daytona to break the world's record of 231.362 m. p. h. made there by the late Sir Henry Segrave in his Golden Arrow. Capt. Campbell was having a little trouble with the town of Daytona and the American Automobile Association about expenses for electric timing devices and payment of officials at the trials, not because he could not afford...
Capt. Campbell, quiet, reticent, with regular teeth and a narrow, Mephistophelian face, has spent $100,000 on alterations in Bluebird. It has the same long chassis he drove at Daytona three years ago (TIME, Feb. 27, 1928) but its new 12-cylinder Napier aeroplane engine has been equipped with superchargers that up its horsepower from 920 to 1,450. The Golden Arrow had only 900 h. p. Blue bird's chassis clears the ground by five inches and the wind resistance has been reduced by changes in streamlining. Fins like a plane's elevators will hold down...
...spree, he goes back to the Marias again, where there is more sky and a sweet Cree girl awaiting him. What lifts it out of the genre of Western stories is the sketching of the old Indian-surrounded life, especially the portraiture of northern Indians. Even if the girl Bluebird waxes Whitmanesque and thus goes slightly out of focus, the rest is an authentic presentation of poetic, finely balanced characters living a splendidly proportioned life, a life now traceable only in the files of the Indian Reports and a very few perceptive studies such as this...
...late King Edward VIIth's first automobile (a Daimler like George V's last) puffed and wheezed ahead of Captain Malcolm Campbell's 200-mile-an-hour Bluebird. There was a League of Nation's float and a Good Turn Truck on which a Boy Scout turned and flapped flapjacks...
Poet Maurice Maeterlinck (The Blue-bird), gracefully wrote her: "My greetings and love to the girl who has found the Bluebird...