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...sparkling in the sun" when the unearthly light seemed to permeate every atom of air in the "dazzling, perfect basin of blue." Then he was as happy, he felt, as he could ever be. A rainbow at that height was not an arc but a perfect circle. He could dive and turn to watch the shadow of his plane on the clouds. Down below him the yellow wraith of gas crept "pantherlike over the scarred earth, curling down into dugouts, coiling and uncoiling at the wind's whim." In the networks of wires and trenches, the miles of invisible...
Nursing a shoulder fractured two months ago in a springboard dive, on his 40th birthday Author F. Scott Fitzgerald was found in an Asheville, N. C. resort hotel by the New York Post. Jittery and moody, he moped about his hotelroom, rambled to his interviewer between drinks: "One is not waiting for the fadeout of a single sorrow, but rather being an unwilling witness of an execution, the disintegration of one's own Personality. . . . I lost my grip." Asked what he thought about the neurotics of the '20's whom he pictures in This Side of Paradise...
...Harvard man's lack of interest in the foibles of his neighbors is traditional and accurate. As there is no uniformity in manners, so there is no catholicity in taste. If a Denver student dunks his doughnut in his coffee back home he should by all means dive in to his wrist at the Union breakfasts. If one from Pass Christian likes to hang blankets over his fireplace and sing "Empty Saddles" in the shower, all the frowns of an Eastern roommate should not strip his walls or silence his matutinals. He, after all, is the "typical Harvard...
Sentenced to 15 days in the Los Angeles County Jail for reckless driving was reedy William Wallace Reid, 19, son of the late sporty Cinemactor Wallace Reid. Said young Reid, surprised at the sentence: "I'd earned $25 doing a high dive in an M-G-M picture, and I brought it with me. I thought I'd be fined...
Miserable or not, the tryouts at least set a record for swimming meets by producing no swimming records of any kind. Qualified for the Olympic team were 18 familiar sports-page figures, including Crooner Eleanor Holm Jarrett (back stroke); Katherine Rawls (freestyle sprint, springboard dive), Lenore Kight Wingard (400-metre free style...