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Like a friendly young giant peering from his tower, aviation has long had an eye upon the rich caravan of men & goods which moves unendingly across the North Atlantic. Though it has occasionally sallied forth offering to carry a share of the load, aviation has thus far failed. But last week new carrying credentials were being written for the young giant when the House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee reported favorably the Grosser Airship Bill authorizing the Postmaster General to let transoceanic mail contracts, and the Senate's Committee reported the McNary Bill to promote dirigible airlines...
...Author. Critic Van Wyck Brooks, born in Plainfield, N. J. in 1886, since his graduation from Harvard has been associated with the Doubleday, Page and Century publishing houses; has associate-edited The Freeman and the first American Caravan. Ill health forced him to desert the Caravan. He lives with his wife and two sons in Westport, Conn. Generally conceded one of America's few serious critics, Critic Brooks takes as the theme of all his work the peculiar opportunities and disabilities of U. S. literati. Of his study of Emerson, he says: "What I wished to convey was a convincing...
...sharp dawn early last spring, seven clumsy, curious motor cars lumbered out of Beirut, Syria, while camels yawned. Big-nosed Levantine chauffeurs behind the wheels of sleek limousines laughed derisively as they whizzed past this caravan plodding East. Soon the caravan left the road and struck out into the desert, where limousines could...
Through Damascus, Baghdad, Teheran, Kabul, 3.445 miles across Mesopotamia, Persia, Afghanistan and northern India to Srinagar, Kashmir, the caravan plodded, while news of its progress was wirelessed to Beirut and thence to Europe and America. Now came the hardest part of the trip, for barring the way into Eastern Turkestan stretched the vast Karakoram Range of the Himalayas. North of Srinagar loomed massive mountains with scarcely a trail across them. Leader Haardt left five of his cars in Srinagar, started up the steep slopes of the Himalayas with the lightest two. Steadily they climbed, up 35° inclines, along narrow...
...Author, Howard Phelps Putnam, 37, Yaleman, was brought up on a farm in Harvard, near Boston. Like his hero Bill, he has wandered. He first became known to literary critics for his "Ballad of a Strange Thing," which appeared in the American Caravan in 1927. After the publication of Trine in 1927 Epicist Putnam went West, lived in Santa Fe, became closely associated with New Mexico's connoisseur Senator Bronson Cutting. He now lives in Sandy Springs, Md., is interested in senatorial politics, is engaged in composing some of the major narrative portions of his poem...