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...worldwide radio audience listened and 100,000 onlookers cheered on Nov. 22, 1935, as the giant* seaplane China Clipper lumbered out of the waters of San Francisco Bay and headed west. The seven-day, four-stop voyage to Manila by the Pan American World Airways craft marked the first commercial flight across the Pacific and opened a romantic new chapter in aviation history. Romance went to the movies in the 1936 film China Clipper, starring Humphrey Bogart...
...printing company, Clipper Enterprises, said yesterday that distribution of the publication--which has an estimated leadership of between 18,000 and 20,000--was held up because a paper lift broke down. The Independent, which usually arrives on the Harvard campus by 7:30 a.m., did not come until late yesterday afternoon...
...successive league games, the crack Yankee Clipper had gone to bat 223 times, had made 91 hits (including 15 homers, four triples, 16 doubles) for a total of 160 bases...
...resort area of Island Park (pop. 154) that is perched along the banks of Henry's Fork of the Snake River, or the North Fork as it is known locally. Every summer, the green drake-large and preposterously dandified, resembling, with its translucent upright wings, a miniature clipper ship-makes its appearance on the Idaho stream in an event that is enshrined in fly-fishing mythology. For a few days, scattered green drakes appear in the area, until finally one day the temperatures of the air and water reach critical mass and for perhaps an hour the drakes appear...
...influences always came from Europe, where the bulk of her fans live. The inspiration of the new album, though, often comes from below the equator. "Pull Out the Pin," the song of a Vietcong cadre in combat, borrows from the rhythm of Indonesia. Even the blades of a clipper join in to help keep time in a manner reminiscent of The Clash's Charlie Don't Surf. "Scott Your Lap" has the throbbing, polyrhythmic beat of the last Talking Heads or Peter Gabriel albums. Bush never really had her roots in African rhythm, but she carries...