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...visceral rather than cerebral. Lieutenant Tito Falconi, young Ital- ian stunter who last fortnight broke his own world's endurance record for upside-down flying with a 3 hr., 8 min. flight from St. Louis to Chicago, did a topsy-turvy climbing bank and "dead stick'' dive. Major Ernst Udet, famed German War ace, sent his Flamingo teetering crazily across the field, on the third try neatly snatched a handkerchief off the ground with a wing tip. Johnny Miller looped an autogiro...
...Jones Beach Lifeguard team: the national lifesaving tournament; at Jones Beach, L. I. Lifeguard Henry Holmes of Locust Valley, L. I. won the Medley swim, the dive for weights, the individual boat race...
...line of buoys that seemed to mark no reef, boat-mooring, fishnet or lobster-pot. As they gazed at this strange sight, five planes roaring out from the land circled over them. The girls suddenly crouched cowering in the bottom of their rowboat when the five began to dive on the innocent-seeming line of buoys, blazing away with machine guns. Four times the planes circled and dived, the machine guns hammering savagely. On the fifth dive, one plane fell at the rowboat. Its machine gun lashed the little craft with a whip of lead. One of the girls, Jean...
...which it had been and which it continued to be until 1913, under the beneficent eyes of city administrations either corrupt or actually proud of San Francisco's reputation as "the Paris of America." No sailor, cattleman or fun-seeking hometowner who set foot in a Pacific Street dive had a chance of getting out with both his money and an intact skull. If he withstood in turn the blandishments of the "pretty waiter girls," aphrodisiac in his drink, tobacco juice in his whisky, a pinch of snuff in his beer, without succumbing to one thing or another, there...
...fishing, it is ruinous to try to set your hook at. the first strike or when the fish is pointed toward you (it would fly out of his mouth). Once hooked the game, resourceful broadbill will roll (to shake the hook from his soft mouth, if caught there), sound (dive straight for the bottom), double under the boat to cut the line, make a run to try to carry away your tackle. Famed for his prodigious jumps, the marlin has been known to "walk on his tail" 50 yd. When you have landed such a fish, you have something...