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...against dashboard, windshield, steering wheel or seat by their own inertia when their car suddenly slams to a stop. Last week Major Alford Joseph ("Al") Williams, speed flyer of note and writer of ability (TIME, Jan. 11), proposed a simple remedy in his daily column in the Pittsburgh Press. Excerpt...
...these proposed new routes and airline officers last week freely predicted that the scramble for contracts would rival the furor caused by the 1934 cancelations. How most of them feel was expressed in an editorial in a new magazine named American Aviation whose first issue appeared last week.† Excerpt...
...Denmark, Kingdom of Reason by Agnes Rothery; the Viking Press ($3). Excerpt: "In a universe pitching in unrest she [Denmark] maintains her equilibrium. In a Europe seething with hatred and riven by distress, she blooms in contentment and cheerful industry...
...Excerpt: "The pulse of the President fluctuated between 40 and 60 during the night, and varied in volume and force, sometimes being quite full and strong and then threadlike and feeble. . . . The wound ceased to bleed or discharge about 5:30 a. m. and from that time the breathing was stertorous, but gradually increased in frequency and decreased in strength up to the last breath, which was drawn at 21 minutes and 55 seconds after...
Tonight's speakers and their selections are: Howard L. Blackwell Jr. '39, of Cambridge, Mass., excerpt from "Messer Marco Polo," by Donn Byrne; Tucker Dean '37, of Chicago, Ill., "The Committee for Industrial Organization: A Challenge to the campus," by John L. Lewis; Edward J. Duggan '37, of Chelsea, Mass., "The supreme Judicial Tribunal," by wil- liam E. Borah; Arthur Ellison '37, of Chelsea, Mass., excerpt from "The Selective Principle in Education," by James B. Conant; Norman E. Hunt '38, of Brookline, Mass., "The Bombardment," by Amy Lowell; Wiley E. Mayne '38, of Sanborn, Ia., "Daniel O'Connell," by Wendell...