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...cold, humble in spirit, Major Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York, one of the most vociferous orators in the U. S. House of Representatives, arrived at Boston. The Navy had given him a ride around Cape Cod from New London, Conn., in the S-8 which made a dive on the way. Major La Guardia, gallant aviator, had never before sailed in a submarine. Said he: "I tore up a speech I had all ready to deliver in Congress. I have found it seems much easier to navigate a submarine from the office building of the House of Representatives...
...that Col. Lindbergh was half way between Tampico and Mexico City, the huge crowd (more than 25,000) began to mill around eager to get good positions. Nine Mexican Army airplanes hopped off to meet him. One of the planes doing stunt flying went into a nose dive and crashed several hundred yards in front of the Presidential stand. The pilot was not injured. Federal soldiers constantly arrived. . . . 10,000 men in and around the inclosure. . . . Returning scout planes landed at 11:42 without having sighted Col. Lindbergh. . . . Silence almost approaching gloom prevailed over the great crowd as the 25th...
Falling on the ball is one of the most important features of a player's skill. He must be able to dive at a loose ball from any posture and land with the obloid caged by arms, stomach, legs. Thus are fumbles retrieved in football games; thus are fumbles, unexpected flukes of fortune, re covered. Many football games have been won by fumbles promptly pounced upon. Since a football is not round, but bounces drunkenly, the proper pounce requires flashing speed, intuitive judgment, and tire less practice...
...Clara Bow, Charles Rogers, Richard Arlen). For propaganda purposes, the U. S. War Department cooperated generously with Paramount in making this picture drama of the skies. U. S. planes are filmed darting against German foes. Clouds below look like white flocks. Only after a ship has started its crazy dive to death do the tiny earth patches rush up to define themselves as gaping scraps of No Man's Land...
Captain Arthur V. Rogers, British destroyer of 32 German planes, jumped. He felt the canvas mechanism of his parachute start functioning.* He hit the ground, was picked up dead. Captain Rogers was testing the Angel of Los Angeles. He circled, went into a nose dive, saw the ground coming up to meet...