Word: olds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fishman Taylor: These lamb chops are one year old...
Married. Jean Assolant, 24, pilot of the Yellow Bird on its non-stop flight from Old Orchard, Me., to Santander, Spain (see p. 47); to Pauline Parker, U. S. chorus girl; at Old Orchard, Me., three days before...
Theophilus Joseph, Negro, is a Harlem elevator man. His wife Henrietta works in a laundry. She wants their 19-year-old foster-son Ronald to follow his foster-father's footsteps and run an elevator. Ronald is not unwilling, but he hopes that perhaps the world holds for him something more purposeful than an elevator. Ronald's reason: last week he had 60 watercolors, charcoal and crayon drawings ?athletes in action, ships in dock?on exhibition in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He had been singled out as the most promising current artist product of New York City...
...eleventh plane flew across the North Atlantic last week, ten years to the day after the first non-stop transoceanic flight. Three young Frenchmen?Jean Assolant, René Lefevre and Armeno Lotti. Jr.? made last week's crossing, from Old Orchard, Me., to Oyamers, near Santander. Spain, 3,128 flying miles, in 29 hr. 52 min. Neither crossing, distance nor time was exceptional...
...start at Old Orchard was June 13, a fair day with western winds all the way across the Atlantic. On the long, white, hard beach were the Yellow Bird and the Green Flash, a Bellanca monoplane with Wright Whirlwind motor which Roger Q. Williams and Lewis E. Yancey planned to fly to Rome. The Yellow Bird was going to Paris. The two planes warmed up simultaneously. The Yellow Bird took off first, her tail drooping unusually. The Green Flash in starting crumpled a wheel and wrecked itself...