Word: flyering
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...Charles Lindbergh a reckless flyer who should have been grounded for his own good? Or was he a skilled pilot who prevailed, with a bit of his famed luck, over the hazards of poor aircraft and sloppy maintenance of the 1920s? These questions are raised in an intriguing exchange of letters between Lindy and William P. MacCracken Jr., the first head of the Commerce Department's former aeronautics branch. The letters, written in 1968, have only recently been disclosed by MacCracken's widow (he died in 1969 and Lindbergh...
...founding in 1892 by a lawyer named Ezra Fitch and a sportsman named David Abercrombie, A & F made its name catering to the outdoor elite. It outfitted Theodore Roosevelt's African safaris and Admiral Richard Byrd's expedition to Antarctica, and counted among other famous customers Flyer Charles Lindbergh, Fisherman Herbert Hoover, Golfer Woodrow Wilson and aground Sportsman Ernest Hemingway. Yet, while it eventually expanded into a chain with branches in nine cities, A & F never adapted to modern-style retailing or to a younger, more budget-conscious generation of activists who preferred to buy from department stores...
...Music, Mirth and Madness at the Old Cambridge Baptist church, 1151 Mass. Ave. The two shows at 7 and 9 p.m. include jazz by Stan Strikland and his group Sundance, dance by Carolyn Brown, film and slides by Ken Brown, but no folk. I listed this because the flyer promises an "audience participation segment" in each show, which sounds kinky. Go, but don't tell me about...
...fortune, and the arrival of Schneider's new friend has given Steiger little cause for comfort. Schneider's looks make her suitable for the role of an unfaithful spouse; blonde, slender and very cool, she has infidelity stamped all over her Nordic features. Her chance encounter with the kite-flyer--who is a struggling writer living near Steiger and Schneider on the southern coast of France--soon develops into a full-fledged affair, leading the two lovers to plot the murder of the deteriorating husband...
...Quakers took a flyer just before the MIT boathouse, picking up the pace to an incredible cadence of about 40 strokes per minute, and began moving up on Harvard...