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Hero. A fierce, tropical storm was raging when orders came for the five U. S. bombers to soar up from their base at Managua and succor the 39 marines besieged in Ocotal. He who led the bombers through the storm was 42-year-old Major Ross Erastus ("Rusty") Rowell, an airman only four years in the service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NICARAGUA: Marines Rescued | 8/1/1927 | See Source »

...circuits he announced in Paris that during the next eight years he would try to 1) take 50 men (including ten scientists), many dogs and sledges and two planes, to explore the unmapped South Polar region,* which may be largely free of snow in antarctic summer months; 2) to soar over the wide jungles of Brazil, mapping mountains and rivers; 3) cruise the length and breadth of the Arabian Desert. Asked if he might not try a bird's-eye look at Mt. Everest, Commander Byrd said: "That's an interesting flight but it's not in my line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Flying World | 7/18/1927 | See Source »

...when she prays to the Virgin for strength to keep her Spanish down. A happy ending and retribution follow the return of the gipsy man with the whip for his "woman." Effective staging surrounds this cloud-lace fabric with an air of reality. Also Blanche Yurka can soar to glory on the wings of feeble dialogue. To those not too well acquainted with the ways of the theatre, The Squall will offer two and a half hours of simple, tense make-believe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays: Nov. 22, 1926 | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

...page after page the reader is held fast to the ground by a million gossamer strands of unimportant detail. Chafe though he may for the moment when he may take off and soar among the clouds, that moment never arrives...

Author: By David WORCESTER ., | Title: The Autumn's Englishmen--Wells and Bennett | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

When the Sulanierco anchored at Boston last week her crew, having nurtured the eagle back to health, presented it to the Franklin Park Zoo. Caged, the stupid eagle will soar no more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: May 31, 1926 | 5/31/1926 | See Source »

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