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...Harry Kendall Thaw, cracked up in landing for fuel. The other cracked up in taking off, mortally injuring its Pilot Russell Boardman. At Los Angeles, Jimmy Wedell won the main events of the next two days at 207 and 209 m.p.h. First mishap at the airport occurred when Cinemactor Hoot Gibson's plane cracked up as he rounded a pylon. He was not badly hurt. Chicago had hard luck. It had counted on Balbo's armada and the Spanish Flyers Barberan & Collar (TIME. June 29, July 3) to lend tone to the opening. But Balbo was in Amsterdam...
...present issue of the Harkness Hoot features a symposium on social ideas and an article entitled "Von Papen on Hitlerism." The impact of the later diminishes when one learns that the man in question is not von Papen after all, but von Papen's son, a law student at the University of Berlin. Mr. von Papen writes in a rather naive and unconvincing fashion, and his statistical vagaries have been carefully corrected by the editors of the Harkness Hoot, all of which indicates that the Hoot has once more been mumbo-jumboed by the roll of a mighty name...
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...bother New Yorkers, for it is a quite unnecessary building, as there was "already a superfluity of real estate in New York, and a paucity of art," and there is still a chance that true Art and the Metropolitan Opera will yet come into their own. When the owls hoot and call in the top stories of the Rockefeller Center in the years to come, New York may give birth to a quieter and more shapely baby...
...close observer of the vibration experiments has been Bailey Willis, Leland Stanford's professor emeritus of geology. Southern Californians consider fluffy-bearded Professor Willis a mischievous hoot owl because, after the devastating 1925 earthquake at Santa Barbara and during the Los Angeles boom, he indiscreetly predicted that the next violent upheaval of the Pacific Coast would occur, as it did. in Southern California. At that time he commented: "Men's memories are sadly short, when they can find cheaper ways of doing things. Yet we can be, and some day will be, reasonably safe against earthquakes in American...