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VICTOR W. FLINT Sales Manager Dakota Breeders Hatchery Fargo...
...from their strongholds upon fields of grain and pastures for their cattle, sheep, and swine. They knew how to weave, and probably made their clothing from the wool of their flocks. It is easy to surmise that traders occasionally crossed the plain to the fortress, carrying commodities such as flint and salt, and sometimes rarer things--amber from the distant Baltic, seashells from the Mediterranean, and perhaps, later on, little trinkets of Hungarian copper...
...comes Professor Hughes work,--an exhausting analysis of the origins and development of Imagism, and a group of essays on the original Imagists: H. D., Richard Aldington, F. S. Flint, John Gould Fletcher, D. H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, and Amy Lowell. The book is a combination of history and criticism, therefore, but it is intended to be chiefly the former, as the author states in his preface...
...Father of Imagism," according to the author is T. E. Hulme, an aesthetic philosopher to whose immediate influence in pre-War days on Ezra Pound and F. S. Flint may be traced the beginnings of the movement. With Hulme as a starting-point, Professor Hughes comes down the line of chronological development, quoting freely as he advances...
...plane crash in which Nation-famed Knute Kenneth Rockne and seven others were killed? (TIME, Apr. 6). The plane, a trimotored Fokker, tumbled out of the low clouds near Bazaar, Kan., with its right wing fluttering after it. It buried its nose deep into the stony soil of flint hills. Only the twisted steel and fabric-or what was left of it by souvenir-hunters-could give further testimony. Designer Anthony Hermann Gerhard Fokker flew from Los Angeles to inspect the wreckage for himself. Fiercely proud of his creation, he was certain there was no structural failure. "The flight should...