Word: howards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Early one day this week, when the chatter about the Hughes flight had dwindled to tabloid speculation over when where or whether Howard Hughes would wed Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, off again was Corrigan, his crate loaded with 320 gallons of gasoline, apparently headed for home to get his nickel back. But instead of heading West, the blind nose of his old ship aimed East, picked up the Lindbergh trail. Year before he had applied for permission to attempt an ocean night, but the Bureau of Air Commerce cracking down on stunt flying, refused...
...John Vassos. Most important exhibition this year at the Silvermine Gallery were 21 murals of a social statement show, which is now on tour, most of them explosive, crowded canvases of somewhat labored satire, like James Daugherty's It's Fun to Be Neutral, or solemn, like Howard Hildebrandt's Construction of the Merritt Parkway. Happier and more decorative were John Vassos' God Bless Our Home (see cut, p. 41), and John Atherton's Chirico-like Americana, in which pale patriotic statuary is poised against bleak winter scenery...
...Howard Robard Hughes's flight around the Temperate Zone (see pp. 36, 50) last week had every managing editor poised for a beat on his local rivals. Day of the fliers' return to the U. S., "Cissie" Patterson's sprightly Washington Times appeared on the streets with a four-column, front-page picture purporting to show the plane on the landing field in Minneapolis. Same day, in its final edition, the Times crowed that it had beaten its competitors to the street by 27 minutes with the story of Hughes's landing in New York...
Same afternoon, in a front-page notice, the Scripps-Howard tabloid News pointed out that its own presses were printing papers telling in minutes and seconds the time of Hughes's arrival in New York six minutes after it happened. Scowled the News: "Now, if the Times was on the street 27 minutes before the News, it must then follow that the Times was telling about the event before it occurred. This is known, in the parlance of poker and questionable duping of the public in journalism, as 'cold decking...
...When Howard Robard Hughes took off from Floyd Bennett Field last week (see pp. 36, 43) engineers feared that he might be flying out into radio silence. There was sunspot trouble. Only a few-hours before the take-off RCA's mighty Riverhead, L. I., communication station had a complete wipe-out of shortwave signals. The Hughes route (a northern circle notably poor for radio transmission) did not look promising...