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...tear it to pieces, blue pencil it. I don't want to look at it. . . . The first thing to do, I think, must be to divide up the work." In a score of inkwells scattered about, there is no ink. Josephine fills them with coffee. The pens scratch and splutter. Joan of Arc is postponed...
Around England for the King's Cup fly England's airmen every year in big planes, little planes, from a 27-horse-power Moth with 7¾ hours start to an Armstrong-Siddeley-Siskin, starting from scratch. Last week, they took off. On the first day, the sun shone clear at dawn; but, before they had gone half way, a fog climbed up to them from the sea and many a plane, bewildered, sought a landing. A "flying grandstand"- an enormous plane fitted with luxurious chairs, glass panels through which journalists and race officials could see what...
...disheartening to learn that Captain Kidd was only an inept revenue agent, but these histories have their compensations. Henry Morgan of Jamaica comes up to scratch as the bellicose gentleman adventurer. No brigand could be more fearsome than Blackbeard Teach, who festooned his ears with braids from his chin and decked his hat with blazing brimstone. Also, there are the two extraordinary prototypes of the bobbed-hair bandit, Pirates Mary Read and Anne Bonny, who successfully combined marauding and maternity. Author Hurd selects a dozen of the sea-rogues, letting a good tale justify its telling. Author Seitz collects...
...Before. They saw him, with a desperate display of iron willpower, set a pace that cost him anguish and troubled not at all Runner Helffrich, who loped behind until, in the last hundred yards, he sprinted, broke the tape, gave Nurmi the first defeat he has sustained in a scratch race since he was beaten by Josef Guillemot of France in a 5,000-metre race during the 1920 Olympic Games. His time was a good five seconds slower than Ted Meredith's nine-year-old record...
...turned in the best trial times, and Kentucky Cardinal, also impressive in trial, were popular. Sande was up on Flying Ebony, stable mate to G. A. Cochran's Coventry, Preakness winner. The Whitney-Greentree Stables' entries had been weakened by the loss of Chantey, a last-minute scratch...