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Flying Squirrels Sirs: ''He [Earl Carroll] was the first man to land an airplane in Manhattan's Central Park" (TIME, Sept. 7). Early in the spring of 1914, I landed a Sloane-Deperdussin monoplane, 50 h.p. Gnome motor (some power fer them days, by gravy!) in the sheep meadow at 66th Street. Was arrested for something-possibly, publicity for the cop who arrested me- and discharged by Magistrate MacQuade next morning. The Aero Club of America suspended my license for six months. If I remember correctly, George Beatty landed a Model B Wright on this same field...
...William Orpen, K. B. E., R. A. was born in Stillorgan, County Dublin, 52 years ago. He was an incredible little man who looked like a Gaelic gnome, used to smoke 70 cigarets a day, eat four meals, sleep twelve hours and walk 15 miles. To an enormous circle of acquaintances he was known quite simply as Billy Orps. His career started in 1890 when he won a L2Q scholarship at the age of 12 and began to study painting at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. He went to London and studied at the Slade School when that dusty...
...large-headed little gnome whose name is Sir James Matthew Barrie (Peter Pan, The Admirable Crichton) stood in Dorchester last week with a string in his hand. He gave the string a tug. some drapery dropped and there, in bronze, sat the late great Author Thomas Hardy. Dorchester was "Casterbridge" in Hardy's Wessex novels Tess of the D'Urbervilles, The Return of the Native. He died near there three years ago (TIME, Jan. 23, 1928). When the monument-designed by Eric Henri Kennington and paid for by the writer's admirers all over the world...
...weird gnome villages of Mexico and Central America came to world attention last week, at the Pan-American conference of health directors in Washington, in the candid report of Dr. Miguel Bustamente of Mexico City, a Johns Hopkins graduate...
...Author. H. M. ("Tommy") Tomlinson, 56, is described by a friend (J. B. Priestley) as looking at first glance "like a rather hard-bitten city clerk. At a second glance, he looks like a gnome. . . ." He was born in London's East End, among the docks; was a sailor, newspaper correspondent, war correspondent, literary editor of the London Nation and Athenaeum. Other books: The Sea and the Jungle, Old Junk, Under the Red Ensign, Gallions Reach...