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From flat Mt. Roraima the explorers-T. D. Carter, G. H. H. Tate and G. M. Tate (younger brother of G. H. H.)-leveled their binoculars across lower flat-topped mountains towards Brazil, British Guiana and Venezuela. They saw, through the frequent rain & mist, water dropping in a vertical fall 2,000 feet. They saw water flowing south down rills, brooks, creeks, rivers to the Amazon and thence eastward to the Atlantic; they saw dripping from jungle trees moisture that was to flow north through the muddy Orinoco and the cascading Essequibo rivers into the Caribbean...
Because a crowd standing in the sea-mist along the race-track at Daytona Beach, Fla., yelled "Action," Frank Lockhart, driver, who had decided not to try for a new auto record that day, turned his car around, drove at 225 miles an hour into the measured mile, hit soft sand, somersaulted into the ocean, landed right side up, in the front pages and in the hospital, suffering from shock...
...Louis in the blackness of the wee small hours. Farewells were called and the ship angled up into the night, circled, and shot out for home. Dirty fog shut down over all of the south-east by daylight, forcing the flyer to steer a compass course over a mist-blotted earth. Random reports of an airplane motor pounding through the fog were the only milestone of his progress. Three hours late at St. Louis, the country grew apprehensive for the punctual ambassador...
Sensitive and excellent direction by E. A. Dupont, of Variety fame, titling in the manner of the early Griffith period, photography that wraps around Vienna a mist of adventure and half-remembered sorrow-these are the assets of Love Me and the World Is Mine. Its fault is too much facial contortion from pretty Mary Philbin and stalwart Norman Kerry, who otherwise adequately play the leads...
...express in print his frank opinion of a CRIMSON competition. Although the candidate in question is in the last stages of his competition and has consequently passed through the depression and discouragement of the first few weeks, his view of CRIMSON work is not blurred by the softening mist which separates the usual graduate editor from the scene of his undergraduate labors...