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While the huzzahing crowds waited and as he gulped the warm meal his mother had set for him, he told her what he had superlatively done: 1) the longest one-man continuous flight; 2) the longest flight in a light airplane; 3) the fastest journey from England to India; 4) the fastest journey from England to Australia; 5) the first non-stop flight from England to Rome...
...riders broke records and bones; the spectators screamed contentedly; one man was gloomy. He was Charlie Miller, winner of the last one-man six-day race, held in old Madison Square Garden in 1898. Charles Miller rode 2,007 miles in six days, taking nine hours, 15 minutes sleep. The winning two-man team last week rode 2,522 miles. When one grew tired he hopped off his wheel and went to bed, and his partner went riding on. When Charlie Miller tired he kept on pumping; he pumped until exhaustion so overcame him he fell off his cycle...
...then continued by sketching the development of the express traffic of the world, showing how the former one-man, local, messenger business founded in Boston over 80 years ago, a haversack being the only equipment, developed into the present day service of the American Railway Express Company, with more than 100,000 employees and extending over 256,000 miles of railway. The air service will soon develop along similar lines...
Glass of Virginia, small, birdlike, came in and roosted quietly. So did "the duck hunting dentist," Shipstead of Minnesota, the one-man party (Farmer Labor). His popularity might distress a less determined man, for besides him the Senate numbers just 48 Republicans (nominally) and 47 Democrats. But Senator Shipstead can tell a Progressive hawk from a Republican handsaw. He signed up with four of the only-nominal Republicans?Nye, Frazier, Elaine, LaFollette?to demand action on farm relief, Federal injunctions and Latin American policies...
...usual place, sat instead in the centre box and led the applause for Fritz Busch. Guests followed his lead, kept their eyes courteously to the front, applauded a respectful, uneventful performance of the Beethoven Fourth, the Brahms First. Five guest conductors are listed this season for the "one-man" orchestra: Fritz Busch of the Dresden Opera for the first half season, then Ossip Gabrilowitsch of the Detroit Symphony, Walter Damrosch himself, Maurice Ravel, coming from France, and Enrique Fernandez Arbós of the Madrid Symphony...