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Goodwill Tour. In the course of a tour of 100 smalltown Exchange Clubs, to demonstrate the dependability of aviation for passenger travel, Frank Goldsborough, 19, son of the late Brice Goldsborough,* took off from Cleveland for Keene, N. H. In the Green Mountains, he plowed into a peasoup fog. Unable to climb over it, he dove his Fleet biplane to 2,000 ft., crashed into the treetops near Bennington, Vt. Painfully injured. Goldsborough's companion, Donald Mockler, publicity-man for Richfield Oil Corp. tried to lift the wreckage that pinned Goldsborough, then stumbled through forest and swamp for five hours...
...which sounded like quarry blasts. These, largest ever made. were constructed with a heavy cardboard case two-thirds filled with saltpetre, carbon and sulphur. In those days, long before and after July 4 fireworkmen were billed like vaudeville teams about the country, the wonders of pyrotechny were displayed to smalltown folk in parks and pastures. Greatest spectacle of these traveling companies was "The Last Days of Pompeii," a morality pageant on a 576-ft. canvas topped by a 70-ft. Vesuvius. Climax of the spectacle came when 2,000 carousing extras paid for their sins beneath an awesome shower...
Just what he meant by that he did not explain. His statement for the printed press was handed out?and mailed broadcast to smalltown editors throughout the land?by his Manhattan office. "Railroaded to jail. . . . Sins I have not committed. . . . A man of honor and integrity," were some of the things it said. Also...
Your Uncle Dudley introduces Walter Connolly as a smalltown sport and civic hero whose services promoting bazaars and festivals have won him a collection of loving cups from the grateful citizenry. This infantile and lovable fellow's desire to marry a. Danish beauty depends on his niece's winning $5,000 in a singing contest. How the prize was lost but Mr. Connolly's bride was won is a story which becomes a bit too long in the last act. It involves, however, some excellent villainy on the part of the niece's mother (Beatrice Terry...
Born Criminals do not exist, said George Washington University's Fred August Moss. But many a person has tendencies which predispose him to crime, viz., epilepsy, paranoia, paresis, dementia praecox, senile dementia. Smalltown children are less apt to become criminals than children of large communities, added Columbia's Hugh Hartshorne. A friendly classroom atmosphere is one of the most powerful influences on child character. "Moving pictures do not contribute to delinquency," said Philadelphia's Phyllis Blanchard. "I have sat in motion picture theatres and marveled. . . . When the villain is caught, as is always the case under the policy of those...