Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yellow Fever Commission made one of the most exciting chapters in Paul de Kruif's brilliant Microbe Hunters.* In the theatre, Sidney Howard retells it in 29 scenes played without an intermission against an "essentialist"' setting devised by Jo Mielziner. The background of the stage, a flight of stairs surmounted by a sort of cage to represent a laboratory, does not change. A few essential props-a bed, the back flap of a tent, a hospital cot-indicate scenes where necessary. That the most genuinely heroic human activities do not always make the most stirring dramas...
...come five seconds or five minutes sooner, Death would have cut short an extraordinary career. Daredevil Ridge, 28, has long been willing to risk Death for Science. Three years ago he appeared at a Boston airport, said he wanted to photograph a hotel, hired a cabin plane. In mid-flight the pilot looked back, saw that Ridge had put on a parachute, was ready to jump. He flipped the plane into a wingover that sent the would-be jumper sprawling to the floor, kept him there by repeated wingovers until he got back to port...
...aviator who claimed to have seen the capital city of the Queen of Sheba in a flight over a section of waste land in Southern Arabia midway between the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea probably saw the ruins of some ancient city, but it is doubtful whether it was ever the home of the famous queen," said Kirsopp Lake, professor of History, in an interview with the CRIMSON yesterday. "The main reason for believing that it is not her city is that the volume of trade which was reputed to have flowed into her kingdom would never have been...
...Bourget Airport, Outside Paris, Mar. 4--Anxiety grew tonight for Dieudonne Coste, French air ace and transatlantic flier, missing on a flight to Copenhagen, Denmark...
Pilot & Meteor. Last spring a TWA pilot over Texas had the thrill of observing a meteor in flight (TIME, April 3). Last week, also over Texas, an American Airways pilot had the even greater thrill of dodging a meteor. He was approaching Texarkana, said Pilot Hiram Sheridan, when a dazzling blue-white light attracted his attention. "I watched it for a minute or two," reported he, "and realized that it was coming straight at me. I changed my course and put on speed, but it looked like it would strike the plane in spite of all I could...