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Bearer of the message and representative of the Ninety-Nines, an association of women fliers of which Mrs. Gillies is head, was Private Fliers Association Counsel Hav en B. Page (father of three). Mr. Page brandished five obstetricians' opinions on the flying competence of pregnant women.One physician maintained that women are completely capable during 90% of their pregnancy, successfully drive cars, sail boats, etc. Thin, emaciated women, vowed another expert, would be much better pilots if they were four months pregnant. Said he, it makes them feel better ; the attitude of "we males" is largely superstition...
...mending other men's shoes while barefoot himself; Brenda in a Tantrum, which shows 1939's Glamor Girl No. 1 streaming indignantly through the air; Art Patrons (see cut), a jut-jawed couple gazing bleakly at a picture they dislike. Without a message were Hallowe'en, Artist Gropper's small son Lee, in a gaudy pirate's costume, grinning out from under a cocked hat of newspapers, and The Kibitzer, an absorbed youth eying a poker player's royal flush...
Married. Theodore Roosevelt III, 25, grandson of the late President; and Anne Babcock, 21, Louisville Junior Leaguer; in Louisville, Ky. Plentiful were Republican Roosevelts at the wedding: the bridegroom's father, Colonel Theodore, whose plane was forced down en route; Aunt Alice Roosevelt Longworth; the groom's brothers Cornelius and Quentin; Uncle Archibald. Absent: Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, T. R.'s widow, shaken but unhurt in a four-car collision in Queens, N. Y.; Uncle Kermit, a machine gun officer in the British Army...
...sisters have an extraordinary beam of 118 ft.-about 25 ft. wider than the biggest liners afloat. This indicates enormous armor protection and underwater bulkheading. The German ships mount eight 15-inch guns to the new British ships' ten 14-inchers. Even if they are not, en masse, the British ships' equal, they will constitute a threat which may force the British to base their battlefleet, not at Belfast as at present, but again at Scapa Flow, where Nazi airplanes and submarines can snipe at them more handily...
...France en armes pour I'Angleterre, en larmes pour I'Angleterre ("France in arms for England, in tears for England...