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...Cleaned up a corrupt city (by tearing the wings off the politicalboss's airplane); 2) rescued a pretty female reporter (by catching her in mid-air); 3) saved the life of a beautiful foreign princess (by sinking a submarine singlehanded) ; 4) foiled a plot on a king's life (by braining a bombster with a camera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Superman | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...made motion pictures of pigeons, humming birds and even houseflies in flight; of lamp bulbs breaking under hammer blows; of craters formed on a liquid surface by a falling drop of milk; of soap bubbles breaking; of falling cats twisting in mid-air to land on their feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Quick as a Flash | 1/23/1939 | See Source »

...childish pastime of bouncing a rubber ball off the face of a wooden paddle. But those who have ever spent a night in Miami or Havana know that "high lie" is the way you pronounce the Cuban national game, spelled jai alai and played by scooping the ball in mid-air with shallow wicker baskets and hurling it against the walls of a long concrete court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Merry Festival | 9/19/1938 | See Source »

...situation, reached up and grasped a string hanging from the runaway and pulled it to earth, not before, however, a prankster held a lighted match to the balloon's capacious belly. Members of the House were startled to see a large orange flame a la Hindenburg appear in mid-air accompanied by a small peal of thunder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bellboys Burst Baby Blimp | 5/25/1938 | See Source »

Died. Gerald ("Jerry") Vultee, 38, aircraft designer (Vultee Transport), and wife, Sylvia Parker Vultee, 27; when his own plane caught fire in mid-air and crashed on Wilson Mountain, near Flagstaff, Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 7, 1938 | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

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