Word: canvasing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near closing day last week, the Corcoran's last prize was awarded: the $200 popularity prize voted for by ordinary gallery-goers during the six weeks of the exhibition. Not one of the professional prizewinners or the critics' favorites was in the first half-dozen. To 343 humble...
Two miles above Daytona Beach two years ago, a slim, sandy-haired professional parachutist from Lansing, Mich, named Clement Joseph ("Clem") Sohn stepped from a plane, spread homemade "bat wings" of canvas sewed between his legs and arms, swooped, banked, looped for 4.000 ft. before floating to earth by para...
When 250 ft. from the ground he pulled the cord of his emergency 'chute. It also failed, opening only enough to foul the canvas wings, thus prevent him from desperately attempting his prime ambition -a stall landing without aid from a parachute. Said a witness: "When I realized Clem...
Captains Courageous, a dry-docked, refitted version of Rudyard Kipling's brassbound tale, relates two stories. One is Harvey's finding a model for living in the person of his friend. Manuel. The other is the We're Here's battle for her cargo, and her...
VERY HEAVEN - Richard Aldington- Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Portrait of a savagely embittered young man whose family's bankruptcy, forcing him to leave college, sets him to discovering the world's bankruptcy generally, England's particularly. Intent on vigorous effect, Author Aldington's hand now and then...