Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elegant imported British set (with Spanish-cork, French-kid-covered, Czecho-Slovakian-goose-quilled birds) like those used by Bette Davis, Pat O'Brien, Douglas Fairbanks and other Hollywood enthusiasts. Although serious badminton addicts play indoors where there is no breeze to affect the true flight of their birds, many a tournament player, such as Mrs. George Wightman (donor of the Wightman Cup), Tennist Sidney Wood and William Faversham Jr., plays outdoors with heavier birds just...
Incidentally, Investigator Richardson eventually finds he has to contend with a radio ray that disables airplane ignition systems in flight. More plausible than most cineminventions, such a ray was reported worked three years ago by Marconi at distances up to 25 feet. Another such, rigged up by a radio ham in Wisconsin, was last year reported gobbled up by the U. S. War Department...
...literature of flying there are few literary books. Among the few: Cecil Lewis' Sagittarius Rising, Anne Lindbergh's North to the Orient, Jimmy Collins' Test Pilot, Antoine de Saint Exupéry's Night Flight. Most imaginative of these was Night Flight (1932), the work of a tall, tilt-nosed 39-year-old French airmail flier for whom the air offers a lesson in man's fate...
...Author Saint Exupéry, who fought his way through a 150-mile cyclone off the Argentine coast; survived a smashup at 175 m.p.h. in the Libyan desert (on his Paris-Saïgon flight), was rescued in time's nick after a 350-mile trudge...
...Vienna Woods, Waltzes Strauss *Largo Handel *Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky *Second Hungarlan Rhapsody Liszt *Liebestraum Liszt-Herbert *Bolero Ravel *Rhapsody in Blue Gershwin Soloist: JESUS MARIA SANROMA *The Ride of the Valkyries Wagner Encores: *Introduction to Act III, "Lohengrin Wagner "Jealousy," Gypsy Tango Gade "Hora Staccato" Dinicu-Heifotz *The Flight of the Bumble Bee Rimsky-Korsakov...