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...best seller, The World in 2030, Mr. Haldane observed that a sort of mental telepathy must exist between his common head and the belted Earl's, since he recognized in no less than 44 passages ideas similar to the ones he had expressed in his essay of scientific prophecy Daedalus...
BALLOON-A Comedy in Four Acts- Padriac Colum-Macmillan ($2). Caspar rents his telescope in the Square (Act 1) in Megalapolis, a city much like Dublin. He deserts his trade to do a heroic thing: to go into the Hotel Daedalus, first to its Cafe (Act 2), then higher to its Hall of Palms (Act 3), then finally to its Roof Garden (Act 4). In all three places he asks this question: "Is a man born a hero or does he become a hero by doing heroic things?" In the Cafe, when a woman eyes him through a lorgnette...
...Pegasus, Daedalus & Icarus, Archytas, da Vinci, Mongolfier, Santos-Dumont, von Zeppelin, Langley-with these names, the historical roster of aviation, President Coolidge led up to his tribute to the Wright Brothers, in an address to the 125 delegates at the International Civil Aeronautics Conference (see p. 23), which President Coolidge had called to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Wrights' first flight at Kitty Hawk...
...Danube Daedalus...
...Nephew of encyclopedic-minded Viscount Haldane, lord chancellor of the Ramsay Macdonald (1924) Labor cabinet; author of Daedalus and Callinicus in the widely-read "Today and Tomorrow Series" of prophetic essays (E. P. Dutton & Co.); prophet of the extinction of agriculture (by synthetic foods); savior of child life by his discovery of ammonium chloride as a cure for convulsions...