Word: recording
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sent Home. Grover Cleveland (''Old Pete") Alexander, 42, 18 years a National League baseball pitcher, holder of the all-time league record for game-winning (373)i member of the St. Louis Cardinals; to Nebraska on full pay for the balance of the season; by Club Owner Samuel Breadon; for breaking training after he lost a game to the New York Giants. He had an edge on every other team in the league. His career's score with the Giants finally stood: Alexander 39, Giants...
Died. Marvel Crosson. 25, of San Diego. Cal., aviatrix, woman's altitude record holder (23,996 ft.); near Wellton, Ariz.. when she, an entrant in the Women's Air Derby (see pp. 18 & 50) jumped from her dead-motored airplane...
...first race the outlandish Swedish knockabout Bachante, gathered her big spinnaker full of wind and kited away from the German yacht Kickerle, and the U. S. Tipler III, to win with a record margin of over 21 min. U. S. yachtsmen looked puzzled, German yachtsmen muttered grave gutturals. In the second and third races, Bachante readily repeated her first victory, thus cinching the Corinthian Yacht Club cup and the Marblehead trophy. Said a U. S. yachtsman wistfully: "We are glad that the Swedes won the big cup, but we are more grateful for what they have shown...
...become a small-town editor (Democrat and Smyth County News in Marion, Va.) because life was dull and vulgar in the Modern Age. "Newspaper writing is writing," he said. ". . . [it] can be as direct, as noble, as fine as any other kind of writing. It is a record, bad or good, of the passing pageant of life." He predicted: "I think that we in America will survive the machine age. Mankind could always stand what would kill a dog. . . . Drink or casual sex experiments will get us nowhere. . . . It would be a proud day for me if I could feel...
...have terminated as an internal company dispute. But Promoter Montgomery mailed Airvia prospectuses which intimated that the company would earn $2,430,000 per year. In its first three weeks of operation it earned only $8,000. The flyers told the postal authorities, disclosed Promoter Montgomery's prison record (five years at Atlanta for using the mails to defraud...