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While other people were doing such things, Aviators Loren W. Mendell, 30, of Los Angeles and Roland B. Reinhart, 29, of Salem, Ore., listened for 246 hr., 43 min., 32 sec., to the steady roar of an old Wright Whirlwind motor, regulate 1 the controls of an old Buhl air sedan called the Angeleno, and soared, soared, soared over Southern California. When they had been up 175 hours, one hour longer than the last World's record (TIME, July 15), a great crowd gathered at the Culver City airport set up such a hullabaloo that "talkie" directors on nearby lots...
Just as the soft strains of Wagner's Prelude to Tristan und Isolde were floating out over Lewisohn Stadium last week, an airplane swooped low over the city, its roar and honk drowning out Conductor van Hoogstraten's orchestra and Edwin Franko Goldman's able, obliging band. Adding insult to injury, the plane was advertising cinema, the industry whose "talkies" have thrown some 35,000 musicians out of work. Next day Conductor Goldman protested vigorously to the city authorities. Outdoor concertgoers throughout the land were relieved to hear there is a Federal regulation requiring airmen to stay...
...groan, then a mingled roar from the huge gallery outside, told Espinosa that something had happened to Jones's second shot on the final hole. Heading for a trap to the left of the green the ball had stopped just short, in rough grass. The next thing Espinosa heard was a loud, but not wholehearted, cheer. Jones had pitched up, but his ball had stopped 12 feet short of the pin. "Let me look," blurted Espinosa and went to the locker room window...
Motorcycle figures showed that the European, outclassed in four-wheel locomotion, is potent in two-wheel travel. Of a world figure of 2,262,932 motorcycles, only 121,656 roar and bounce through U. S. territory...
...with some 1,000,000 out of 1,500,000 South American telephones in U. S. control, and with the newest Behn victory in Peru and Colombia, it would appear that South American communications travel on the Eagle's wings rather than with the Lion's roar...