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Since he looked into Scribner's window, Thomas Maitland Cleland† has himself enriched many a book, has become a great designer and typographer. Last week's publication is a collection of his best work. For five years it has been in preparation by Manhattan's Pynson Printers, who fashioned it with the deliberate, careful excitement of Cellini shaping a silver vessel...
...fire between whirling propeller blades. After the War, Herr Fokker went from Germany to Holland, then (1923) to this country, of which he will soon become Mr. Fokker, U. S. citizen. Commander Richard Byrd flew a Fokker to the North Pole and another Fokker across the Atlantic; Lieutenants Maitland and Hegenberger flew a Fokker from California to Hawaii...
Dire and inexorable figures were released, last week, by Great Britain's aristocratic Minister of Labor, Sir Arthur Herbert Drummond Ramsay Steel-Maitland, LL.D. Though it must have galled him to do so, Sir Arthur was obliged to announce that more Britons are now out of work than at any time since the catastrophic General Strike...
...Lindbergh flushed angrily and drew away. For a moment I [Maitland] thought he would strike the man. After a struggle with himself he regained his well-known composure and we walked away...
...back, caused by mauling crowds. At first, he had difficulty in getting money for his transatlantic flight. "He even went to the makers of a famous cigaret and asked them to finance the flight to Paris in a plane bearing the name of their cigaret." So said Lieut. Maitland...