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...most foolish notion ever held by a college man is that flying resembles riding a roller-coaster. No one is sure how this myth originated, but to the satisfaction of all concerned, it is rapidly being exploded by Harvard Flying Club 'missionaries'". So spoke the secretary of the club, Kerkham Cornwell '43, yesterday...
...document," unsigned, was said in London to be "a lark, a joke, a squib" perpetrated in 1919 by Samuel Kerkham Ratcliffe, British publicist, and "planted" on Shearer...
...British Who's Who 1927 and Europe 1927 (standard international year book) both spell "James Ramsay Macdonald" with a small "d." But, from so close a friend of Mr. MacDonald as Journalist-Lecturer Samuel Kerkham Ratcliffe, TIME welcomes the information that onetime Premier MacDonald now defies the authorities and spells his name with a big "D." His former habit of signing with a small "d" is attested by British passports signed by him during his Premiership, and recently examined by TIME to verify the spelling and capitalization "James Ramsay Macdonald." Since no one but Miss Ishbel MacDonald should receive...
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