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Many a woman has found notoriety in "flying" record distances?with an experienced man pilot at the controls. Many another woman has announced plans for spectacular solo flights???which have never materialized. Hence, last week, the British Empire and then the world at large became aware with some astonishment that Amy Johnson, 22, golden-haired secretary, graduate of Sheffield University, was performing a prodigious feat in her flight from Croydon, England, toward Port Darwin, Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Hinkler Rivalled | 5/26/1930 | See Source »

...kitchen marked off by a broad red line across which the cooks dare not tread but over which they pasa nicely browned sausages or still-warm tarts to the loungers in the billiard department?in this delectable tavern foregather Michael Webb and claimants to culture. Their discursive and argumentative flights???hodgepodge of raillery and provocative philosophy?are the substance of the book. Three or four years pass unobtrusively, disconnectedly, and the book ends as it progressed, inconspicuously yet without any sense of incompleteness, for a romance has culminated in a formal wedding with a formal clergyman and a very formal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Brute in Purple* | 1/4/1926 | See Source »

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