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Through the quiet, ever-grey want-ad columns of the London Times rang a challenging voice last week. It called for "well-educated young men who are willing to take off their coats and learn an exciting trade. Work arduous, filthy; you will be frozen to death in winter and...
Out of the Mediterranean came the first news about the Arctic. In about 330 B.C., when Alexander the Great was marching on India and Aristotle was lecturing to his classes, Pytheas, a native of the Greek colony of Massilia (Marseille), sailed out through the Pillars of Hercules and turned north...
Last week, just a few days before the committee was scheduled to resume hearings, Hughes announced that the plane was ready for water taxiing tests. He said he did not plan to fly it, but invited the committee members to attend anyway. None accepted. Hughes went ahead and launched the...
After the tests, Hughes denied that he planned the flight to impress the Senate committee and, in doing so, suggested that the Hercules was a marvelous machine. "It felt so buoyant and good," said he, "I just pulled it up." But the performance would certainly do him no harm when...
¶ In Manhattan, 494 rare items of old English silver from the estate of the late J. P. Morgan were auctioned off at record prices: $31,000 for twelve Elizabethan dessert plates, engraved with the Labors of Hercules.