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Last April Charles William Anderson Scott, a rangy young man who was once champion boxer of the Royal Air Force, landed his Gipsy-Moth at Port Darwin, Australia 9 days 3 hr. 20 min. after leaving Kent, England. His time just beat the record of Wing-Commander Kingsford-Smith; but Lieut. Scott wearily declared: "I wouldn't make the attempt again for a million pounds." Last week Lieut. Scott arrived back in England. His time from Australia was 10 days, 23 hr.-nearly two days better than Kingsford-Smith's record for that direction. Ill from exhaust fumes...
...brilliant set of literary and artistic notables. Like her rival and townsman, Anna Seward is remembered better for her life than for her works. Her poems describing the explorations and exploits of Captain Cook receive less consideration from Miss Ashmun than her meetings with Walter Scott; Dr. Darwin, the great Darwin's grandfather; Romney, who painted her portrait twice; Carey, the translator of Dante; and the poet Southey. Other men of similar note pass across the background of "The Singing Swan." Boswell, to whom she gave much scandal about the great doctor, Garrick, Reynolds, Coleridge, and Adam Smith...
What Is Going to Happen Next? Physics is like "a mother who has just given birth to several healthy children, but has not yet recovered sufficiently to know what is going to happen next." ? Charles Galton Darwin (Edinburgh U.), mathematician grandson of the Charles Darwin...
...first mail plane of Imperial Airways' new London-Australia service (with which addition the company serves four continents) ran out of fuel near Kupang on the Island of Timor, cracked up in a forced landing. Last week Australia's air hero Charles Kingsford-Smith flew from Port Darwin across the Timor Sea to Kupang, in his famed Southern Cross, and returned with the mail from the crippled City of Cairo. Not discouraged. Imperial Airways last week dispatched its second Australian mail plane from Croydon, England. By schedule, the flight should take ten days; surface mail takes 28 days...
Disagreeing with most British opinion, Professor Darwin does not think that the American university or college is too heavily endowed. The elaborate equipment. Scientific or athletic, although often regarded as a luxury is a definite time saver and should be appropriated...