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...survived-piano-playing Larry Callahan of Chicago, for example; Violinist Albert Spalding; one-armed Alan Winslow; husky Dr. "Hash" Gile of Princeton and New York. They will applaud the terse descriptions of air action, heavily salted with realism and cynicism. They will admire Clayton Knight's sketches of havoc-ridden skies. They will remember the writer as they remember other men in his pages-big "Ros" Fuller, Clarence Fry, John Goad, "Hobey" Baker, "Micky" Mannock, superb Major Bishop (and his wife) and Pilot Springs, who flew with milk of magnesia in one pocket, gin in the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NON-FICTION: Two-Bladers, Four-Posters | 1/24/1927 | See Source »

...vanguards met and clashed in war, and soon the whole street was filled with a disorderly miss of rioters, belaboring each other with torches clubs, or whatever came to hand. Mounted police were sent for, and because of their elevated seats were able to wreak able to wrealy crest havoc among the students. Finally some torch beneath one of the horses, who reared and threw his rider. Other took up the scheme, and the cavalry was routed in great confusion. But the reserves arrived, and the students fled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lure of Politics Today Is As Strong As 50 Years Ago, When Students Frolicked, Lit Up by Red Fire and by Hard Cider | 11/1/1926 | See Source »

...Place de Tertre a U. S.- tourist-jammed, see-Montmarte-by-night charabanc was mobbed. Many a Knox hat was stove in. Many a pair of Hickok suspenders gave way. Havoc. . . . But no serious injuries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A bas les Americains! | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

...reported whether the "No climbing" placard was due to the Tibetans' fear of "the hairy men," malignant creatures who they believe once lurked high up on Everest, descending at times on the villages to wreak havoc, steal women and yaks, slaughter men; or whether the lamas, who are so humane that they will not molest lice and other creatures that take refuge on their bodies, could not bear to have any more human lives endangered and sacrificed on that gaunt tooth of Asia that white men are so perplexingly anxious to ascend. On the third and last expedition, which came...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: No Climbing | 4/26/1926 | See Source »

...Wreaked Havoc...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: P. B. H. Starts Clothes Drive Monday--Seeks to Relieve Crying Need for Garments in Eastern Europe and Asia | 4/10/1926 | See Source »

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