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...American clipper America, which had flown off 13 days and 3 hours earlier from LaGuardia Field into the east, returned from the west last week. It had flown around the world, inaugurating the first round-the-world air service. Pan Am will operate two regular flights a week-one west from San Francisco, one east from New York. Domestic airlines will complete the transcontinental gap in the circle. Globe-girdling fare...
Eddie Davis, the iron man of last fall's football team, may be playing right tackle for the Boston Yanks when next September rolls around. Last month after watching a re-run of the Harvard-Yale football game movies, Clipper Smith, head-coach of the Boston pro-football club, came up with a fat offer calculated to make Davis a Yank lineman when the 1947 National Professional Football League opens...
...these marvels were some of the new postwar gardening tools and gadgets which were finally being produced in quantity. The fanciest was a four-wheeled, gasoline-driven lawn mower with a unique rotary blade-it worked something like a floor-waxer. Price: $179.50. Runners-up were an electric hedge clipper ($44.50) and a flamethrower for killing weeds and soil bacteria ($23.50). Much postwar equipment was made of light-weight metals; there were a rubber-tired magnesium wheelbarrow (16 Ibs., $34.50), and an aluminum rake ($5). Neater still, there was a garden hose made of amber-colored, semi-transparent plastic...
...Sabula (Iowa) Gazette was able to note that "Virtus Peterson of near Green Island called at the Gazette and would like to buy about half a bushel of rye seed." The Chenoa (Ill.) Clipper-Times announced that the second grade was enjoying the reading of Billy Whiskers at the Circus, which was brought to school by Bobby Ritter. The Cassville (Wis.) American reported: "Wilbur K. Buschbom, otherwise Billy, returned Tuesday morning from the Carolinas. He is a cowboy rider and does trick roping. A fascinating, if dangerous life? Young Billy says, 'It beats workin...
...landing at Shannon Airport, Ireland, was routine. As the Pan American Airways Clipper (bound for Lisbon from New York) taxied towards the airport terminal, the pilot snapped an order: "Flaps up." The copilot, who had flown many hours in DC-4s, instinctively reached down with his left hand, yanked the lever next to his seat...