Word: julians
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Back from oblivion last week came Colonel Hubert Fauntleroy Julian, the "Black Eagle of Harlem," whose exploits in aeronautics kept Manhattan city editors in copy during the years before World War II. Colonel Julian came to public view, with a riffling of $1,000 bills, as he boarded an airliner to leave Guatemalan City, fared from his latest position as arms buyer for the Guatemalan government...
...Julian frankly admitted that "what has happened to me here hurts." But the Black Eagle has become accustomed to a fantastic up & down career in the years since 1923, when he learned parachute jumping from Clarence Chamberlin (who later flew the Atlantic). Chamberlin found Julian a reluctant student, finally made him jump by flipping him off the wings of an Avro biplane. Julian landed safely, still clutching a strut he had ripped from the Avro. The Eagle later made many spectacular jumps over Harlem, playing a saxophone as he floated down in red tights. He also learned to fly himself...
...years later, Julian was hired to enliven the coronation of Haile Selassie as Emperor of Ethiopia. While...
Your two articles on the "Knights of the Church" and "Humanists, 1952" in the Sept.1 issue seem to indicate that because the former director general of UNESCO, Julian Huxley, is an ardent humanist (as defined in your article), UNESCO is following in its activities principles which are contrary to Catholic moral theology (e.g., birth control). May I point out, as a Catholic member of UNESCO, that Dr. Huxley, while director general of the organization, carefully avoided mixing his personal views-which he always freely professed-with the official programme and gave a shining example of objectivity, tolerance and fair play...
...pleasure to find a movie about Paris that does not portray the same old ruts etched by endless waves of tourists. Though Julian Duvivier wrote and directed Under the Paris Sky for a French audience, no one should miss the picture he has painted of a complex, living organism--Paris...