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...plane is intended for training purposes, and will be used for members who have not yet passed their license tests. Courses will be given by Qualified transport pilots. The Club also owns another plane, a Curtis Robin, which was bought only last October, and which is used for pleasure flights...
...Antarctic Expedition. Vaudevillian Fred Allen has already made Manhattan audiences laugh about it in Three's a Crowd, but Bird Life at the Pole is the first full-length parody. The story is supposed to have been told to Mr. Gibbs in a low hurried voice by Commander Christopher Robin, who was sent to the Antarctic as a news stunt by Publisher Herbst. When the expedition's ship, the Lizzie Borden, got to the Panama Canal, she was towed through by a Mr. Burton, swimming all the way with frequent rests (a dig at Playboy Richard Halliburton). The expedition...
...aeroplane, which is a Travelair Trainer, has two cockpits, double controls, and is powered by a Curtis Wright Gypsy motor. It will supplant the Gypsy Moth which is now being used for training members who have not yet passed their license tests. The club owns another machine, a Curtis Robin, which was bought only last October, and which is now being used for cross-country work. The new one will be kept with the others either at the Boston airport or at the field of the Eastern Aircraft Company...
Writers are often human, often have children; but not often have they immortalized their own children by writing about them. Two glistering exceptions are Alan Alexander Milne and Arthur Stuart Menteth (If Winter Comes) Hutchinson. Everyone knows Christopher Robin. Soon a lot of people will know Simon. For in The Book of Simon Author Hutchinson tells you all there is to know about his son, from the age of 17 months to nearly three years. It is an affectionate account, not totally bereft of humor. "He crawls excitedly under the table for something and then, having secured it, gleefully stands...
...Simon do when he grows up and sees what his father wrote about him? "There will be nothing for the lad to do except embark on deed after deed of violence, rising to a climax of unimaginable crime. . . . In fact I can imagine that in 1950 the names Christopher Robin and Simon may not mean at all what they do to the belletrist public of today. They may mean something not very different from what Bugs Moran and Al Capone mean today. And who will blame them...