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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...family tradition James progressed from Groton to Harvard. The Roosevelts are not distinguished for scholarship* but James nevertheless stayed off probation (flunkers' list). He joined the Fly Club (social). Signet Society (literary) and the junior varsity crew, got his diploma six months late because he had failed to pass German...
...rescue, the semirigid dirigible V6 started out from Moscow. To Leningrad and beyond, the flight was uneventful. In the mountainous Kandalaksha region near the White Sea, a heavy snowstorm enveloped the airship. Radio communication stopped. Searching parties found the wreckage after a 24-hour hunt. Thirteen of the crew, including the commander, were dead. Three of six survivors were injured...
Catholic in her teaching principles, Mile Boulanger has teethed a varied crew of composers: conservatives like Quinto Maganini, Douglas Moore and Virgil Thomson; wide-open Westerners like Oklahoma-born Roy Harris; jazz-bred Manhattanites like Aaron Copland and Marc Blitzstein; rip-roaring cacophonists like Walter Piston. But when the late George Gershwin visited her in Paris, proposed himself as a pupil, it took her only ten minutes to say no. Said Mile Boulanger: "I had nothing to offer him. He was already quite well known when he came to my house, and I suggested that he was doing all right...
Biggest airplane yet constructed in the U. S., Boeing's "314" is the first of six Atlantic Clippers for P. A. A. Among its features new to passenger aircraft are: 1) a "flight deck" for the twelve-man crew as big as the total inside area of the biggest U. S. land transport now flying; 2) engines, reached by a catwalk through the wings, behind which an engineer can stand to mend fuel lines, change spark plugs in flight; 3) unlike any other flying boat, once in the water it will remain there and, like a ship, emerge only...
...necessary before the ground is reached, but the whole descent occurs in 1/100 sec. or less. When the stepped leader reaches the ground, the main stroke, more powerful than the leader, shoots upward to the cloud along the path created by the downward steps. In general the McEachron crew confirmed Schonland's findings, but they discovered that in some instances the leader stroke did not shoot downward from the cloud but upward from the building's top. They got pictures of branched lightning which forked upward...