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Sirs: I can give you the particulars of still another statue erected to a Jew in this country. It stands in the city of Indianapolis, and is that of a (then) young lawyer Nathan Morris, erected, as stated on it, to recognize an act of supreme heroism, in giving his life to save others in a fire. BENNO LEWINSOX...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Hearst & Coolidge | 2/6/1928 | See Source »

...many echoes of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh's heroism, not the least sincere is the symphonic portrayal, We, composed by James Philip Dunn of Jersey City, N. J. At City College, Manhattan, where the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra under Willem van Hoogstraten plays nightly to music lovers in the summer, We last week had its premiere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lindbergh-on-the-Ear | 9/5/1927 | See Source »

...left New York; two men risked their lives; two men have shown heroism and created a record even greater than Lindbergh's. Two men left; two men arrived, Americans both. But the President of the United States congratulates only one, and by strange coincidence the one whom the President has not found worthy of being mentioned by name is named Levine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Chamberlin & Levine | 6/20/1927 | See Source »

...demoralized beyond recognition the author turns to Roman stupidity, brutality and licentiousness which he riotously portrays without causing the reader to blnk an eyelash. His obstreperous satire becomes annoying when it is detected as so obviously blatant and artificial. It might be justifiable to sweep all of the heroism away from the character of Caesar, but there should be a motive for such an action. Satire without an objective is innate...

Author: By R. A. Stout, | Title: Polished Wit--Men of Letter and Politics | 6/15/1927 | See Source »

Much has been made of the "luck" of the "flying fool". Yet not luck but courage, heroism will inspire those who remember what the son of a Detroit school teacher has done in attemptiny this sensational experiment not alone in aviation but in manliness...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HEROICS-1927 | 5/21/1927 | See Source »

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