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...Airways flying boat Cavalier, built by Short Brothers in England and powered by four Bristol .Pegasus motors, was reversing the route. Hampered by the winds which helped the Bermuda Clipper, it skimmed the waves at 1,000 ft., reached Port Washington in 5 hr. 49 min. after a brief detour to see the towers of Manhattan. The doggy blue uniform of the Cavalier's Captain William Neville Gumming, veteran of the trans-Mediterranean run, who stepped jauntily ashore carrying kid gloves at a rakish angle in his left hand (see cut, p. 52), brought quips from reporters, who asked...
Galloping down Mass. Avenue expecting to find cheering celebrants grouped around the Revolutionary flagpole in the Square, William Dawes, the Cambridge Paul Revere missed his cue yesterday. The motley crowd of Patriots' Day paraders had not arrived, and so, making a detour, had to return a second time to receive his deserved ovation...
...from Dnepropetrovsk to Ros-tov-on-Don. Instead an Intourist tourist must go all the way back up to Kharkov and then down to Rostov. The Intourist tourist may ask why, but never finds a Russian who seems to know. Ambassador Davies did not have to make this senseless detour, was routed direct. En route he dictated his impressions for transmission later to the State Department, cracked jokes and told Washington yarns in the vein of his good friend Jim Farley. Every winter since anyone can remember the Five-Year Plans, it has happened at Rostov that "snow is delaying...
...realized that the inherent and inherited qualities of a man--President Conant would call it predestination--are of more importance than the medical training in this business of mental massage. Such learning which takes eight years to acquire and eight more to forget is only a well-paved detour in the careers of such...
...crushing taxes other European countries impose on motoring. The Fatherland is pushing sales of cars by every means to Germans who know they will be confiscated in wartime and used to speed troops over the strategic highways Herr Hitler is building instead of strategic railways. His reason: cars can detour around a bombed section of road while trains cannot...