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...LIFE AND TIMES OF LYDIA E. PINKHAM-Robert Collyer Washburn—:Putnam...
...division), marries her, goes back to the front, is reported dead. He turns up again later when the nurse is stifling her sorrow by running a rowdy resort on the Riviera. It is all nicely photographed and acted with zest and stupidity by Gary Cooper and pretty, lymphatic June Collyer. Typical shot: philosophic conversation between the two principals about what war does to people...
...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...