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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more points, he too came a cropper. In a spectacular spinning dive, his left wing snapped off. He tossed back the cowl covers, tried to wriggle out of the cockpit. Centrifugal motion held him fast. Finally leaning far out over the nose, he grasped a metal indicator, wrenched himself free, parachuted into a birch tree...
...most interesting, was twelve-year-old Alex Kozloff, a Brooklyn carpenter's son, who beamed beside three small bright oils. His Coney Island was a broad copy of pictures he had seen on Sunday trips to museums, but his uninhibited use of paint and his free brush were evident. Sea Beach, he says proudly, "is out of my head...
...moldy traditionalist is Father James J. A. Troy, Wartime army chaplain, who took over the new and churchless St. Austin's parish in Minneapolis two years ago. He had already built five smalltown, debt-free churches in Iowa, some unconventional but none radically modern. This time he wanted a church that would look as useful as he thought he could make it. To designs submitted by numerous firms, Father Troy had but one answer: "Yes, they are very beautiful, but not my nightmare." Archbishop John Gregory Murray put no stone in his way when the well-known local firm...
...another, just released, well calculated to ring the bell again. Sonja Henie has been called variously Queen of the Ice, Pavlova on Skates and the Nasturtium of the North. But no captioner has hit her off quite so neatly as did Broadway's knowing old verbal free skater, Damon Runyon. Sonja Henie, says admiring Mr. Runyon, is just a gee-whizzer...
...unsalable as china painting. In championship competition, figure skaters are called on to do about seven out of about 41 compulsory school figures. Although many of these figures are inordinately difficult to learn, most are very dull to watch. The second half of a figure-skating contest is free skating, where invention counts as well as execution. Theoretically unlimited, in practice most free-skating repertories, including Sonja Henie's, are limited by the fact that competitive figure skaters ordinarily perfect no more feats than they need to eke out four minutes (five minutes for men) in competition. This official...