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...Capt. Musick took off from San Francisco in the China Clipper after much flag-waving, flew with perfect precision to Manila and back in a fortnight...
...taciturn Captain Edwin C. Musick of the China Clipper keeps a diary, he last week had good reason for grumping in it. The proud program of spanning the Pacific, which he began for Pan American Airways with much éclat last autumn (TIME, Dec. 2 et seq.), has ever since run more & more askew in a crescendo of frustration which last week attained a new climax. The diary...
...Having posed in Santa Claus costume, Capt. Musick took off with the first load of Pacific air express. After 700 miles he met a storm. True to his traditional caution, he turned about, returned to San Francisco...
Last week: The China Clipper finally got away again. For 13 hours she butted head winds. Then, having gone 1,000 miles, Capt. Musick cocked an ear at a bad report from Hawaii, scooted back to Alameda...
Thence to my book seller's shop to buy Des Cartes book of Musick which I think is not so good as his utterances on the nature of our souls and the natural light and the like. And thence by water to White Hall and there saw King Charles at Chapel; but staid not to hear anything, but went to walk in the Park and there among others was pleased to meet my friend John Dryden who did talk to meet my friend John Dryden who did talk to me of the purpose of poetry that it was to "instruct...