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Clarence D. Chamberlin, Mr. Levine's onetime employe, was no longer obliged by contract to pilot Mr. Levine and declined the latter's invitation to fly the Columbia home. Mr. Levine approached Lieut. Bernt Balchen, Byrd aide, and Sir Alan Cobham of England, but without success. Then it occurred to...
The three legged man had a right to Oscar's interest. For haven't you all wanted to see a professional three legged race? What was our dismay to find that this fellow had never been in one. It seems his mother was a beared lady. And she did whatever...
Acadians. The story of Melville illustrates the tenacity with which the people in the area now being flooded cling to their homes. Most of them are Acadians?of old French and Spanish stock, few speaking English. They are (in the words of Herbert C. Hoover) "as much like French peasants...
Two lean, long-legged mammals which man had bred for speed, raced each other for 220 yards in San Francisco, last week. Propelling himself nearly twice as fast as fastest humans can run, Clockwork, horse, covered the distance in 11 seconds, finished two yards ahead of Arroyo Sloe Eyes, whippet...
Over mountains, across deserts, between corn fields, down a thousand Main Streets goes the jogging army?Arabs, Finns, great Danes, bandy-legged Italians, blackamoors, Kansans, Californians, Georgians, the Tarahumura Indians of Chihuahua, Mexico, whose sandals go clump-hua-clump-hua. . . . They sit in ditches and catch their breath. They sleep...