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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Teena, however, offers no congratulations. "Get Louie back," she mutters to Jencic. "Ask me anything you want to and I'll give it to ye, but you got to promise to get him and see that he comes here...
Jencic refuses until she weeps. Then Louie cannot be found. Then the truth comes out. Louie has got her pregnant. This time Jencic proceeds against Baker Krusack's advice. He is his own man now. He says : "I know all about Teena, more'n you do. It is true she done something she shouldn't do, but after we get married it will be all right. Everybody makes mistakes. What if people didn't forget such mistakes, then everybody would be mad at everybody else, and nobody would have even one friend...
...arrived in the U. S. in 1900. He delivered meat, sold newspapers, sang in a choir. His parents hoped he would become a rabbi. At the age of nine he had been studying the Talmud for three years. In 1906 Sarnoff Sr. died. In the same year young David got a $5 job as messenger boy with Commercial Cable Co. He saved $2, bought a telegraph instrument, soon was a junior telegraph operator with the old American Marconi...
Pilot Parker W. ("Shorty") Cramer, 33, was the man who initiated the Chicago-to-Berlin idea. He has been arguing for such a flight for five years. Last year he persuaded Rockford, Ill. boosters to finance him on a trip with Bert Hassell in the Greater Rockford. They got as far as stormy Greenland (TIME, Sept. 10). Two months ago Cramer backed Aviation Editor Wood into a Chicago hotel room and talked sport, adventure, glory at him. The trip would be safe and sure. They would fly from Chicago to Milwaukee, make a courteous gesture to Leif Ericsson...
Editor Wood, enthralled, got Publisher McCormick to agree. Failing the services of Pilot Eielson, Cramer suggested tall, bald Pilot Robert H. Cast, 33, whom Mr. McCormick soon commandeered from his friend John Daniel Hertz, onetime Yellow Cab tycoon...