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...civilian pilot named Gustave Le Moine last week took an airplane up from Yillacoublay Airfield, military airdrome near Paris. Two hours later he came down with a new world record for airplane altitude: 45,264 ft. (Old record: Capt. Cyril F. Uwins...
...cheers greeted Major Cyril F. Entwistle when he shouted, "It is necessary for us and other countries to tell Japan quite clearly that she must conform to western standards of living or her goods must be prohibited from entering other countries...
...other semifinalists were beefy Cyril Tolley, champion in 1920 and 1929. who has lately done most of his golfing in the U. S., and a capable Scotch player named Thomas Arundel Bourn, 23 years younger than Scott. When Dunlap lost, everyone knew what to expect: Tolley would beat Bourn and then take the final. Instead, playing on a course he distrusts because it imposes eccentric penalties on his long drives, Tolley lost to Bourn in a tight match, after 20 holes. Next day, Scott made matters easy by piling up a 5-hole lead in the morning. In the afternoon...
...Jeremiah (i.e. denunciatory pessimist) is Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, M.A., since 1930 Head of the Department of Philosophy and Psychology at Birkbeck College in the University of London. Though he plays such cheerful games as tennis and hockey, Jeremiah Joad also sits long over the chessboard, writes ironical, sarcastic books. A typical Joadism: "Advertisements are ugly, partly because commercial men rarely have the sense to employ artists to design them, partly because artists, on the rare occasions when they are employed, have not the sense to design what the commercial men want." (The Babbitt Warren, p. 143; Harper...
Cleveland's announced reason for transferring the races: the discovery that ten-day meets in one spot in successive years were more than the public would support. A possible solution offered in the February Aero Digest by Associate Editor Cyril Cassidy ("Cy") Caldwell: Let each year's races be operated like a road show, playing three or four days in, say, New York about Decoration Day; another few days in Philadelphia around July 4; thence to Boston, Chicago, St. Paul, ending in Cleveland on Labor...