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Into the control cabin of Condor NC 12354 at Newark Airport one afternoon last week climbed Pilot Clyde Hoi-brook of American Air Lines, onetime War ace, veteran of 10,000 flying hours. Into the passenger cabin climbed Stewardess Margaret Huckeby, onetime nurse. Four passengers followed them in and, last, Copilot John Barron Jr. "Clear!" cried the dispatcher, and the green spotlight across the field showed clear. Pilot Holbrook took off with a roar and headed north for Chicago by way of Syracuse, Buffalo, Cleveland...
...considerable skill in facing an audience with composure. If the candidate is expected to think during his examination, that is, put more into his answers than parroted memory work, he must have the training of a soap-box orator to withstand professorial heckling in the face of amused hoi poloi...
...Though Oak Street Beach is near the centre of Chicago's exclusive Gold Coast, it draws from the slums west of State Street untidy hordes of hoi polloi such as swarm on the public beaches of all big cities. Chicagoans guffawed last week to read in the smart New Yorker this advice to visitors to the World's Fair: ". . . You can go swimming any day in the middle of Chicago at Oak Street beach and be in the best possible company.'' The smartchart had been hoaxed by Mrs. Henry ("Hetty") Field, socialite society reporter for Hearst...
...readers, partially because it is often hastily judged by those who happen to see it only in its worst moments, partially because it is the traditional goat among the sheep on Harvard's Parnassus, and perhaps because it is not too anxious to be read by the hoi polloi...
...said: "I feel that I cannot do justice to both studies and tennis in the spring months. . . . Naturally, I want to . . . help win back the Davis Cup, if I am lucky enough to be named on the team." Next day, Vines received a concerned and friendly telegram from Chairman Hoi-combe Ward of the U. S. L. T. A.'s Davis Cup Committee: "Advise reconsideration your decision. No players required for Davis Cup competition before May 15, by which date your season's scholastic work should be near completion. Committee considers your education paramount. ..." Interviewed again, Vines said...