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...world's airplane altitude record of 47,352 ft. held by Italy's Renato Donati. Because of the thin air and -70° temperature of the stratozone, Pilot Post had encased himself in a grotesque suit made of white asbestos. Topping it was a big metal helmet with one panel of thick glass. Inside this airtight, electrically heated outfit, oxygen was fed under pressure to chubby, tousle-haired Pilot Post. On his first flight Post got lost, had trouble with his oxygen valve, spent some bad moments in fear he might literally blow up. On the second...
...Painted Veil (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When Dr. Walter Fane (Herbert Marshall) goes to the door of his wife's bedroom in Hongkong, he finds it locked. On the hall table lies a polo helmet. From these two facts he knows that his Katrin (Greta Garbo) is sinning with a cool young legation attaché (George Brent). At dinner that night, Dr. Fane presents Katrin with a choice: she will leave with him for Mei-tan-fu, where cholera is epidemic, or she will marry the attach...
...lion cub which flew everywhere with him and helped to get his picture in the papers. Better known than this pet is the Turner uniform-robin's-egg-blue tunic, faun-colored whipcord breeches, Sam Browne belt, black riding boots and a gold-and-crimson flying helmet...
...helmet of ice 100 to 150 ft. thick caps British Columbia's Mt. Robson, tallest (12,292 ft.) of the Canadian Rockies. From the ice cap's edge huge fragments occasionally break off and start avalanches. A Bostonian named Henry S. Hall and his Swiss guide had the pluck to defy this danger, the luck to escape it, were last week picking their way down from Mt. Robson's glittering summit...
...band swung into the "Marseillaise" and the master of ceremonies bellowed: "Now we come to that great patriot of France!" Across the stage marched a slightly nervous miss wearing a plumed helmet and a cuirass above a skimpy bath-suit, carrying a sword and shield. The band played "Onward, Christian Soldiers." The young lady, a 17-year-old Manhattanite named Mary Louise Peck, was supposed to represent St. Joan of Arc, patroness of France, who was canonized in 1920 as a saint of the Roman Catholic Church...