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...Airman Bert Acosta, 57, headliner of the '20s, turned up in a Manhattan restaurant, down on his luck and ill with tuberculosis. Whisked off to a hospital, he got a get-well letter from Rear Admiral (ret.) Richard E. Byrd, who flew across the Atlantic after Charles A. Lindbergh in 1927, with Bernt Balchen (now an Air Force colonel) and Acosta as copilots...
Combat & Psychology. After the war came an era of reckless barnstorming and adventuring. Editor Jensen has unaccountably omitted the most vivid snapshot of that era, William Faulkner's Death Drag. But he has snagged some other good things: Anne Lindbergh reminisces about a weird Alaskan flight; Antoine de Saint-Exupery describes a Patagonian cyclone; and James Thurber, in his wonderful story, The Greatest Man in the World, draws a satiric profile of Pal Smurch, the cocky little urchin who flew nonstop around the world-the adulation went to his head so badly that he had to be pushed...
...Debussy's La Mer, which will be released this fall, the New York Times's Book Columnist David Dempsey concluded: "This opens up practically unlimited possibilities for authors who would like to do a little music commentating oji the side. Hemingway could take Carmen; Anne Morrow Lindbergh, The Flying Dutchman; Lin Yutang, Chopsticks...
Even the Monitor succumbed, saying, "Crushing crowds of cheering Bostonians stood on tiptoes today to get a fleeting glimpse." But the Times commented, "It was not the sort of hysterical outpouring that met Colonel Lindbergh 23 years ago... nor was it quite the sort of demonstration associated with a personage who is both a hero and a legend... Most people seemed content principally to turn to those near them and exclaim...
...plot was first used by Maurice Chevalier on Broadway in 1934, when the title was "The Red Cat." Don Ameche made a movie of its entitled "Folies Bergere" in 1941. The gimmick is Kaye, the night-club performer, impersonating Kaye, the greatest aviator since Lindbergh. The complications involve a multi-billion franc financial deal, a beautiful, half-clothed wife (Gene Tierney), and a beautiful, half-clothed dancing partner (Corinne Calvet). The plot is so involved that it deserves no more serious attention than it gets. But even its incredibility is worked for laughs...