Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Allure (by Leigh Burton Wells; Arthur Dreifuss & Willard G. Gernhardt, producers). Marion (Edith Barrett) has been a sadist from her crib. In childhood she incurred the hatred of her entire family by pushing her sister Joan down a flight of stairs, leaving her a lifelong cripple. Grown up, slinky Marion continues to raise hob. She brings home an Italian sculptor who falls in love with Joan, does a splendid statue of her. Mean Marion smashes the statue. Not until Act III is she persuaded to shoot herself...
Engaged. Elizabeth Dole, 23, daughter of James Drummond Dole, founder chairman of Hawaiian Pineapple Co. and aviation patron (Dole Flight, 1927); and David H. Porteus, Harvard Law student...
...Jackson is held out of the West Point clash, Eddie Casey will have to start a backfield that contains only Bob Haley from the trio of top-flight performers Harvard had expected to rely on. Chet Litman will probably take Moseleys' place at left half, with Fergie Locke going in at times to do his speed specialty. George Hedblom will probably continue as the No. 1 right half back, while the other Sophomores, Bilodeau, Ford, Blackwood, Ecker, Watt, and McTernan will fill in the gaps...
...first Settle-Fordney flight came to a quick and ignominious end in a Chicago railroad yard. On their second attempt Settle and Fordney reached 61,237 ft., which remains the official record. Much was hoped for, scientifically, from this flight. It had been planned to measure the directional variation of cosmic rays at great heights. The balloon spun round so rapidly during the flight that this could not be done. Jars of fruit flies were to be taken aloft to see if the cosmic rays would produce mutations. While the stratonauts were waiting for good weather the fruit flies died...
...Johnson of the Bartol Foundation demonstrated that more rays come from the west than from the east. Hinting his disillusionment with manned balloons, Dr. Compton has begun a mountaintop and sounding-balloon survey. Dr. Millikan, in the current Physical Review, has kind words to say for the Settle-Fordney flight. In his article he reproduces a strip of film from the automatic electroscope aboard the Settle-Fordney balloon, one of the few real trophies ever brought down from stratonauts' stunts aloft...