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...From San Juan, Puerto Rico, went the huge Army Douglas amphibion Duck, covering the 919 miles in 7 hr. 12 min. to win another world record, for airline distance for amphibions...
...flew back in record time, became the first woman to make the round trip solo. Last week she again took off from England, this time for a series of swift hops to Thies in Senegal, finally on to Natal for a flawless crossing in the record time of 13 hr. 15 min., despite bad weather...
...Start. ing and finishing in Paris in connection with the Paris Fine Arts Exposition, the race will be open to flyers of all nations, will follow in general the route taken by Wiley Post in his 1933 globe-circling record of 15.600 miles in seven days, 18 hr...
...mender; and the over-energetic jabberings of James Cagncy as Bottom, the weaver, effectively combine to detract from the real merits of the production. Omitting much of the superb poetry which is the play's chief virtue, the screen version still contrives to run too long (2½ hr.). Nonetheless, by grace of Hal Mohr's magnificent photography, which makes the backgrounds far more effective than any stage set could ever be. plus Composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold's brilliant arrangement of the Mendelssohn score, and the indestructibly entrancing spirit of the play itself, which is perfectly recaptured...
...breathtaking 20 hours. Lately, however, airplane and streamline rivalry forced a succession of cuts-first to 18, then to 17¾, finally, last April, to 17 hours flat. The two trains can go faster, but railway officials know that density of population, roadbeds, grade-crossings make a 15-hr. schedule too dangerous to be warranted...