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Ballooning is the most fascinating and skilful of sports. Yet it is more than a sport. It requires the most careful study of meteorology and gas buoyancy. From the balloonists are drawn the most skilful airship pilots and operators.
Heywood Broun-"It does not seem to me that the author has succeeded in his effort to present a benighted people wholly from their own point of view. ... It is skilful eavesdropping, but it falls short of capture."
On Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, horns honked, crowds jostled. Walled from the trespass of honkings, jostlings, in a very still room on that thoroughfare, a courtly company gathered last week. Financiers, famed beauties, serene old ladies. Day faded; lights pricked out along the Avenue. There was no stir, no chatter of...
A half-hour scrimmage was ordered by Dempsey to finish the practice. The coach made frequent substitutions and every man on the squad was given a chance to show his ability. George Crawford, former star athlete at St. Mark's and quarterback on the Freshman football team, distinguished himself by...
All are executed with a sure, skilful hand, with an ever-fresh touch, unhampered by schooling. Said Herbert Wafd: "But even if a man does ugly Negroes and knows what he is doing and manages to get his soul into it, there will some day come along the men who...