Word: collyer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heroine, June Collyer, makes a very pleasant nurse in feature and form, and to our mind the appearance of the leading lady in the average movie is often the deciding factor in placing it on the right or the wrong side of the fence...
...Thus beating the world's record of John Henry Mears and the late Captain Charles B. D. Collyer-23 days, 15 hours, made by air- plane and steamship in 1928. Last week Mr. Mears declared that he would next year try to fly the earth in 16 days with an amphibian. The pilot he wants: burly Bernt Balchen, now with Explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd in Antarctica...
...required three years (1519?22) for his sailing trip. Author Jules Verne's fictitious "Phileas Fogg" required 80 days; Nellie Bly, New York World reporter, 72 days (1889); U. S. Army planes, 175 days, of which 15 were actual flying days (1924); John Henry Mears and C. B. D. Collyer, record holders, 23 days (1928). The Graf Zeppelin expected to fly twelve or 14 days, with four-day stops for fueling at Friedrichshafen, Tokyo, Los Angeles?in all, a few days more than three weeks. The Mears-Collyer dash cost them $29,507, or $14,753.50 each. Dirigible passengers paid...
...Quite Decent (Fox). Probably the ablest of cinemothers, Louise Dresser, tries hard and resourcefully to keep her daughter away from a no-good fellow. Dimpled June Collyer does not know that Miss Dresser is her mother at all. This is not surprising because daughter and mother have not seen each other since the one's babyhood and the other's flaming youth. Also, because the mother, as a nightclub hostess, is in mulatto makeup much of the time. Because the story, de pending mostly on character, is a strong one, because the background is unusually well directed...
Pole vault--Won by Sturdy (Yale); Berlinger (Pennsylvania), second; tie for third between C. E. Dunlap '30, Collyer (Cornell), Pond (Yale), and Cone (Yale). Distance--13 ft., 7 3-4 in. (New intercollegiate record...