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...quiet, earnest person, Manning made barely enough at his jumping to support a pretty wife and five-year-old son at Pico, Calif. Last month he got $1,000 for eight jumps at the California State Fair at Sacramento. On he went to Chicago for the International Air Races, spent the whole sum on four new 'chutes. Following the races he attended a party at the South Bend, Ind. home of Vincent Bendix (automobile and airplane parts). Another guest, Charles T. Otto, offered to fly him and a girl friend back across Lake Michigan's tip to Chicago...
...Vermonters, unable to find any single mountain upon which to bestow the name of their distinguished native son, have decided to christen four mountains "Coolidge Range." The bill to accomplish this, now pending in the Vermont legislature, originally included Killington, Pico and Shrewsbury Mountains. Last week Salt Ash Mountain was added to "Coolidge Range...
...everyone knows, the eagle is a bird more remarkable for vigor than sagacity. This was again proved when the little steamer Sulanierco recently sailed away from Porto Pico followed by a huge black and white eagle soaring high above her wake, disdaining to swoop for scraps thrown by the cook unless they consisted solely of meat...
...development of natural science. Such are the editions of Aristotle, Pliny, Ptolemy and Albertus Magnus; oracular compends of Isidore, Hrabanus Maurus; the monkish encyclopedias of Vincent de Beauvais, of Bartholomaeus de Granville, of Jacobus Magnus, of Mathias Farinator, the speculations of Pierre d'-Ailly, Nicholas of Cusa and John Pico of Mirandola. This field of thought is still more richly represented among the books of the fifteenth century by the work of Agrippa and Paracelsus and their extravagant compeers. Whatever pertains to the superstition of science seems to have had for Mr. White an especial interest...