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...Angeles last week celebrated the homecoming of Douglas Gorce Corrigan, who few months before left a workaday mechanic's job to flivver off into the sky, blarneyed his way to Dublin and back and became the most fabulous escapist of his time. Back down from the sky, he came, after a triumphal tour of 44 cheering cities, looking as modest as Lindbergh, when he stepped out of his little ship at Glendale airport...
When the Connecticut Nutmeg reached its readers last week, it carried an enthusiastic boost for a stubby "flivver" biplane by illustrious Frank Hawks, pacemaker to U. S. commercial aviation. For his Nutmeg contribution he had been promised a year's subscription to the paper. "Fool-proof," wrote Frank Hawks of the Gwinn "Aircar" behind which for the last year he had been putting all his reputation and energy. "It will not spin and it will not stall. . . . With only an hour or two of instruction any average person (even the intelligentsia) can fly our ship. . . . A development that should...
...hrer Adolf Hitler fortnight ago surmounted the cornerstone of what he promised would eventually be the world's largest automobile factory. Perched there he spoke with the pride and feeling of an automobile salesman on the subject of Germany's new Strength-through-Joy (Kraft durch Freude) flivver. Within easy pointing distance were three slick models for the new 65-miles-per-hour, $396 Volkswagen, which Der Führer expects will one day be as much a part of every German's life as an Ersatz sausage in every pot. "This streamlined four-seater," barked...
...Colonel Johnson declared "the numbers stand about as follows: U. S. (on hand and under construction) 16,000; France 11,000; Russia 10,000; Great Britain 9,000; Germany 8,000; Italy 7,000; Japan 7,000." Listeners knew he must be including every last U. S. airplane, from flivver to biggest Army bomber. They knew also that most airplane records for speed, distance and payload, despite Colonel Johnson's claim to "supremacy," are held by other countries. All this raised the old question: "What good are planes without pilots...
Andre Breton and Paul Eluard, the exhibition gave ample evidence of the continuing fertility of such Surrealists as Photographer Man Ray, Sculptor Hans Arp. Painters Max Ernst, Andre Masson, Rene Magritte, Yves Tanguy, and especially Salvador Dali. That dapper master of mystification was represented not only by the flivver group at the entrance but by paintings ranging from Le grand masturbateur (1929)10 Telephone aphrodisiaque...