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Last week came first results. Tall, tan Lewin Barringer wedged himself into the small cockpit of the German-built, Du Pont-owned sailplane Minimoa, was towed into the sky by an airplane at Wichita Falls, Tex., cut loose at 10:45 a. m. Six hours later he landed at Spartan Airport, Tulsa, Okla. Over Oklahoma City he had soared 7,500 feet into the air, 1,267 feet higher than the U. S. altitude record set by his friend Dick du Pont in 1934. He had covered 210 miles, 52 better than the U. S. distance record, also Du Pont...
...genteel pretence into a sprawling grotesque. Detractors have called him a bullying bravo, have pointed out that smashing spectacles and pushing over a pushover are not brave things to do. As the "lost generation" he named* have grown greyer and more garrulous, so his own invariably disillusioned but Spartan books have begun to seem a little dated; until it began to be bruited that Hemingway was just another case of veteran with arrested development and total recall...
...kitchen on the first floor and eight thinly partitioned sleeping rooms upstairs. Board and lodging cost $1.25 a day; no women were admitted. From a barrel of whiskey standing in a corner guests drew their own drinks, at 4? apiece. Seven years later when Apollos Smith built a less Spartan 20-room lodge on Upper Saint Regis Lake he had changed his name through "Pol" to a dignified "Paul" and had become a substantial Adirondack character...
...really as its basis, not the quest for raw materials, as was so in the imperialism of the last century, but the quest for glory, power, and the exaltation of the spirit. The revival, if any, is not as to imperialism, but as to the concept of the Spartan or disciplined State. I think that Professor Langer should rewrite his article. Alfred Nittle...
...full view and earshot of the crowds that come to watch the race, in a shelter that looks like a flag-draped motorcycle crate and contains one cot for both members of a team, one shelf for all personal belongings, including axle oil. Six-day bicycle riders find their Spartan circumstances beneficial. Many gain weight in races, reduce in the intervals between them. A cyclist's compensation is from $75 to $500 a day, based on his value as an attraction...