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...CHUTE-Albert Halper-Viking ($2.50). This story of life in a big Chicago mail-order house is more powerful, more understanding, than Author Halpers previous novels (Union Square, The Foundry) but his ambition still surpasses his ability...
...finds, a bucking horse named Hell's Angel. So vicious that in five years no one has ridden him the prescribed ten seconds at the garden, Hell's Angel on opening night Bought about the downfall of one Fritz 1 ruan only a yard out of the chute...
Along a big new concrete chute at the Akron (Ohio) airport last week, 130,000 people, more than regularly attend any U. S. sporting event except the Indianapolis auto races, jammed together to watch the finals of the fourth annual All-American & International Soap Box Derby. The racers, selected through elimination races sponsored jointly by the Chevrolet Division of General Motors and 120 U. S. newspapers, had been having the time of their lives for three days at Chevrolet's expense in Akron's Mayflower Hotel. Their vehicles were miniature rubber-tired automobiles constructed by the contestants...
...went up with him in a plane piloted by Russell T. Thaw, son of Harry K. Thaw and Evelyn Nesbit. In the cockpit Crane held a long rope tied to the ripcord on Fulen-wider's parachute, so if the writer failed to yank the 'chute open after he jumped, Crane could do it for him. At 2,000 feet. Fulenwider climbed out on the plane's wing, got his feet tangled in Crane's rope, jumped before anybody could yell at him. The 'chute did not open. The ghostwriter's story was finished...
Starting with two from 1911, the Marshals run down through the Class of 1936. Those from 1917 are Amory Coolidge and Francis M. Weld; from 1922 Richard Chute and John Crocker; from 1927 J. Randolp Burke, Leo F. Daley, and Austin Lamont; from 1932 Charles Devens and N. Penrose Hallowell...