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Only one markedly radical design was shown: George Fernics "tandem" monoplane with its three-wheel landing gear. Of low-wing sport type, the plane has a small auxiliary wing mounted in the fore of the fuselage which, by stalling earlier than the main wing, reduces the chances of complete involuntary stalling and spinning. The third wheel, mounted beneath the nose, places the ship in constant flying position, also prevents nosing over...
...published abroad), he is now U. S. correspondent for transition (TIME, Feb. 17). Hard of hearing, with large, gazelle-like eyes, he wears a mustache, parts his hair in the middle. Last February Critic Josephson planned to take his wife and two small sons to Europe; the night be fore the Bremen sailed the Josephson's Manhattan apartment caught fire. Josephson saved his family, tried to save a favorite picture by Artist Charles Sheeler, was badly injured, failed to save it. Other books : Galinatius and Other Poems (privately printed), Zola and His Time...
Here again times have changed and with them the popular feeling toward President Harding. Candidate Frelinghuysen, aware of this shift, cannot put to the fore of his campaign his close personal relationship with the late President. Once the name of Harding would have worked magic for any Jersey candidate. Now Mr. Frelinghuysen knows it would be a liability, hopes voters will forget it. "Not that I have changed in my loyalty to Warren," he said last week, "but you know how women...
Fossils. Notable among the Manhattan Press meetings was the congress of Fossils. Founded at the Centennial Exposition in 1876, the Fossils were originally titled the National Amateur Press Association, were 1,400 strong. As Fossils, this year's was the 27th annual reunion. Members fore-gathered in lower Manhattan at the Fossil Library, where musty walls and showcases are filled with nearly 40,000 amateur newspapers, clippings, photographs, relics. With the advent of the linotype, Fossils regretfully remember, boy-edited journalism gradually passed away. Membership in the organization is gained by presenting a copy of a nonprofessional, personally published paper...
...length by men like "Upton Close" (pseudonym of Joseph Washington Hall, probably the greatest historian of contemporary Asia, certainly the one closest in tune with Asians), and C. F. Andrews, an Englishman who used to be St. Gandhi's secretary. In the daily press, taboo keeps Gandhi to the fore as a sort of quaint fool with spinning wheel, who for no good Anglo-Saxon reason is followed with blind fanaticism by gibbering millions. The wheel (every one of the saint's followers and he himself must spin at least 6,000 ft. of cotton thread per month...