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...loaded, is powered with four air-cooled 16-cyl. Napier-Half ord 340-h.p. engines, carries a total payload of 1,000 lb. (but no passengers) 3,500 mi. at 160 m.p.h. Its mother beneath, Maia, weighs 40,000 lb. loaded, has four big 9-cyl., 960-h.p. Bristol "Pegasus" radial engines, a wing span of 114 ft., speed of 160 m.p.h. and a range of 730 mi. Though no passengers are intended to ride in mother plane Maia it is equipped as an Empire flying boat, has seats for 16. Fastened together the two planes, all eight engines...
Other new officers are: R. Palmer Baker '39, secretary; David Nussbaum '39, Pegasus; John B. Davis '39, treasurer; Allen W. Clowes '39, circulation manager; and Granger F. Kenly '41, advertising manager...
...earlier work Morley Callaghan gave promise of being a sharply sensitive realist. Perhaps it is the haze of his native Toronto, perhaps it is only the gentling-down that many a prancing Pegasus goes through as it is broken to the book trade, but he seems now to be turning into a mystically misty romantic. Since undertones of the realistic approach remain, the result is, at times, confusing...
...parodies the first thing to consider is make-up. This issue, like its predecessors, attains perfection in this respect. The cover, except for the Pegasus that has replaced the Phoenix, looks like the real McCoy. There is a brief resume of the contents and a startling picture of the latest "Wunderkind", to whom the feature article is devoted...
...editorial page is an excellent transcript of the original, but what has become of Pegasus? Does the Phoenix rise triumphant after all? In a Sullivanesk manner the Editor takes the stand and reveals the cliches of his trade. Several letters, ranging from the violent to the academic, follow in their usual place. More reviews bring us to "The Bowling Alley," where the King of the Kinsprits gets what's been coming to him these many years. The person who ghosted this feature deserves to be congratulated on having imitated Morley's manner so well, even to the footloose anecdotes...