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...first person to fly solo across the North Atlantic east to west, serialized his autobiography. Week before publication was to start he blurbed: "The world knows me as a hero, but I am a night bird. . . . Life for me begins when daylight fades and bright lights glitter in the bars and clubs from here to Honolulu. ... I cried when I left my Tahiti sweetheart. . . . Amy [Johnson Mollison, who lately divorced him] has been wonderful to me, but we are poles apart." From England, Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew to Dinan, Brittany, then drove a hired auto to the coast. When...
Obscured by all the bong and glitter of pre-Coronation, a quiet little scene took place in Britain's High Court last week which may vitally affect the future of Anglo-Italian relations, possibly the peace of Europe...
...British Throne, King George VI last week continued to gladden his Government's heart by being as little like his abdicated brother and as much like his father as he possibly could. He had shown himself tractable by preferring the solid virtues of rural Sandringham to the glitter of London night clubs. He had reopened the Royal racing stables along the lines on which George V ran them. He was riding in sombre Daimlers and Lanchesters and not in slick American cars. He had even changed his policy about yacht racing to meet popular demands. When George V died...
...other story, which was no scoop, had a two-column head: WIDENERS' $100,000 PARTY RIVALS GLITTER OF GILDED AGE; MUSIC ALONE COSTS...
Blond, graceful Leopold Stokowski mounted the stand, back as guest conductor with the Orchestra he left last spring to go to Hollywood (TIME, Oct. 19). Conductor Stokowski took pains to make his first concert of the New York season glitter, made the new symphony wait till last. Devoted to Oriental instruments, he swelled the percussion section with a group of weird brass Oriental gongs, had them bong dolefully through his own transcription of music from Boris Godunov...