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There isn't a great, deal that can be said for the twelve other solous who gave their considered approval and dragged after Mickey like the tail after a kite. One can laugh at Mickey because he has his points, but in the face of the rest one can only wilt and wonder. Professor Chafee over at the Law School summed up the whole case when he stated: "This is the best argument offered thus far for Plan...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ST. PETERSBURG AND THE DEVIL | 1/5/1940 | See Source »

This was proper bait for the Vagabond. He tore after it like the tail after a kite. "Because Harvard is a conglomeration of every type," he stated with finality. "You can't let her go with Indifference. You have to use every adjective in the vocabulary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Vagabond | 9/26/1939 | See Source »

Last week the Kansas kite builder got an order for some more of his quantity-produced flying machines. The U. S. Army bought a half-million dollars' worth* of Martin 167 attack bombers, two-engine ships that can streak through the air at 360 m.p.h., tote a ton of bombs, maneuver against the nimblest pursuit ship in the air. It was no two-bit order, but it was not big enough to give pleasure to Glenn Luther Martin. He had hoped to fill the $15,000,000 bomber order which the War Department simultaneously placed with his big competitor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kites to Bombers | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

Mother's Boy. A stoutish, purse-mouthed man who looks out of shining spectacles with an amiably deliberate expression, Glenn Martin is exhibit A1 of what a human being can do by channeling all his time and talent in one direction. From his earliest kite-making days, he has been a no-nonsense man. When he was a youngster he promised his mother he would not drink until he was 21; at 53, he still keeps his promise. He was too poor and busy in his youth to smoke, nor does he yet. He never had much time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Kites to Bombers | 5/29/1939 | See Source »

...Marc Jaffe Marjorie Walker, Philadelphia Webster N. Jones Edith Small, Chestnut Hill Albert C. Joyce Jean Sugiue, Salem Eugene D. Keith Alice Coxe, Tenafly, N. J. Graham McD. Kelly Pearl Raining, Needham William H. J. Kennedy Barbara Lydon, Brookline Edward F. Kilroy Doris MacDonald, Utica, N. Y. Owen W. Kite Arleen McHugh, Trenton, N. J. Marvin A. Klemes Shirley Goldsmith, Long Beach, N. Y. Norman P. Knowlton Barbara Matt, North Attleboro John P. Lacy Marice Butler, Montclair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 160 Will Bring Girls to '42 Jubilee Tonight | 5/26/1939 | See Source »

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