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...with its railroad and clustered wooden buildings, two Fokker monoplanes were finally assembled last week. Captain George H. Wilkins, leader of the U. S. aero expedition which is to fly over the Polar blindspot to Spitsbergen (TIME, March 15, SCIENCE), called to his aides. They were Major Thomas G. Lanphier and Lieutenant Carl B. Eielson, the pilots, and A. M. ("Sandy") Smith. All was set for the first tests. But Captain Wilkins would not commence until the crowd of spectators-newspapermen, townsmen and women of Fairbanks-dispersed. He was afraid of killing someone. So they scattered and the propellers were...
...meet people in this world of ours is even more enlightening than a college education," is the opinion of Miss Fay Lanphier, who won the title of Miss America in the Atlantic City beauty show last year...
...Miss Lanphier paused to pose for her picture as a CRIMSON photographer added to the already thick could of smoke from the flashes which shrouded her dressing room. Then she turned to the CRIMSON reporter, who had tried unsuccessfully in New York at a previous time to get an interview with the star of "The American Venus." "I was sorry," she declared, "but we have to be careful in the metropolis. It's different here in Boston...
...business-like as in the office where I had spent my time. But these people are so different They are so much more human, and so much less cold blooded. One cannot realize how surprised I was when I got to know the exponents of the imitating profession." Miss Lanphier, however, is not required to do much imitating...
...Miss Lanphier has been appearing in connection with the "American Venus," in which she is started with Esther Ralston. The picture appeared at the Metropolitan Theatre two weeks ago, and has moved on, so she is now there on the same program with "The Grand Duchess and the Waiter starring Adolphe Menjou. She expressed a wish that she could visit the University, but time would not permit...