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Having toured 5,000 miles of Europe in his "vest-pocket airplane," the Yankee Doodle, George Kern Jr., son of a meatpacker, retired, returned to the U. S. last fortnight to show the incredulous an air flivver which weighs only 575 pounds, costs $2,100, flies for three cents a mile, crosses the Alps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Air Flivvers | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...flying across Europe in a commercial airliner recently, that Tourist Kern met, as fellow-passenger, Willibald Seypelt, German flier during the War. Enthusiastically, Pilot Seypelt told the U. S. tourist of a tiny plane made in Stuttgart, after the designs by one Hans Klemm. Together they went to Stuttgart, found a little monoplane, with long low-set wings and a short body, the latest idea in European airplane design. Only 22 feet long, it had a wingspread of 43 feet. A 29-h.p. Klemm-Daimler motor furnished the power to carry about 400 pounds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Air Flivvers | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...Tourist Kern, enthusiastic, wrote a check; in two and one-half hours of instruction he became Flier Kern. With Pilot Seypelt they set out over Europe, over nine different countries, 5,000 miles Total expenditures for gas, oil, etc.: $180. In the U. S., where gasoline and oil are cheaper, the cost would have been no more than one cent a mile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Air Flivvers | 3/26/1928 | See Source »

...Help Lovin' Dat Man" from Show Boat-Jerome Kern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Best Sellers | 3/19/1928 | See Source »

...established itself magnificently as the best of its kind in town. She did not write the songs and jokes, but the librettist held closely to her basic story. The floating theatre on the Mississippi made a perfect background; Negro singers helped the melodies. These tunes were by Jerome David Kern, written at his best. Unlimited chorus girls and superbly competent principals (there is no star) added full value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Jan. 9, 1928 | 1/9/1928 | See Source »

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