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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Leonardo da Vinci, who was so variously ambitious that he wanted to master birds' accomplishments as well as man's, declared in 1505 that no man would ever get his feet far off the ground until he had thorough knowledge of air and its currents. The invention of engines provided aviation with a shortcut, proved Leonardo partly wrong. But at the same time man did study the air, developed four types of motorless flying: gliding (coasting downward on still air); slope soaring (on rising air currents along the shoulder of a hill); cold front soaring (on the brow...
...plans alternate routes, prepares for every contingency of weather. One of ten in the U. S. to hold a Silver C License (international gliding license), he is also licensed to fly transport planes. The most ardent sailing enthusiasts, sea and sky, take to motor ships when they want to get somewhere...
Covering modeling, theatre, and nightclub jobs as possibilities for girls who are beautiful; publishing, advertising and department-store jobs for girls who are brainy; and social work, education, office work and odds & ends for others, Author Leaf finds these fields all overcrowded. Models get $5 or $10 for a sitting, but of 10,000 girls in New York who think they are models, only 200 qualify as professionals. A few make from $5,000 to $10,000 a year, but probably only 15 average $150 a week, and clothes, beauty treatments and agents' fees take a lot of that...
...themselves, and comparing their possible salaries with New York living costs, Author Leaf tries to show them what they will be up against, rather than warn them off. But since he writes warmly about New York life, and covers the field thoroughly, it is likely that more girls will get ideas from his book than will be frightened away...
...until he came out and heard the same scare stories all over again. Venezuela officials were touchy hysterics, but no worse than nuisances; the Indians were merely poor. He grew a beard, however, since without one, said other explorers, his trip would impress no one and he would never get his picture in the rotogravure sections at home...