Word: springing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White House, the East Room was wired for talking cinema. Two nights a week sound pictures are shown there. President Hoover does not care much for "talkies" -"They demand too close attention." ¶ Last week Billy returned to the White House. Billy is the Hoover opossum. In the spring the President lent Billy to the Hyattsville (Md.) High School as a mas cot. Hyattsville, thanks to Billy, won the county championships in soccer, basket ball, track, baseball. Wrote President Hoover to the school borrowers: "I am glad to have your report on the efficiency of Billy Opossum. . . . Precautions will...
Happy was Henry Sherwin Rupp, 19-year-old son of a Long Beach, Cal., businessman when his appointment as a midshipman to the U. S. Naval Academy came through last spring. Happier still was he when he arrived at Annapolis last week to take his examinations. The mental ex- aminations were stimulating. He passed them handily. Physically he was found whole and sound?except that when a bundle of many-hued yarns was set before him, he picked yellow for green, green for blue, blue for purple. The Navy wants men who can recognize colors. The Navy rejected Candidate Rupp...
...thickly filled but that it can be used as a publicity medium by people with money enough to "pioneer" it. Last spring Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the Chicago Tribune; New York Daily News and nickel-weekly Liberty, rode around the Caribbean in a Sikorsky christened Liberty for benefit of press.* Last week Mr. Patterson's cousin-partner, Robert Rutherford McCormick, sent another Sikorsky from Chicago northeastward. This plane was supposed to fly a Great Circle course to Berlin for the glory of the Chicago Tribune ("world's greatest newspaper"), whose aviation editor, 200-lb. Robert Wood, went...
Philharmonic Travels. Next spring, between the close of Manhattan's symphony season (April 20) and Arturo Toscanini's engagement for the 1930 Bayreuth Festival (July), Mr. Toscanini will conduct the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra on a European tour similar in time and locale to the Boston Symphony Orchestra's tour (TIME, July...
Southern Crossers Flayed. Two men died this spring hunting to rescue Charles Kingsford-Smith, Charles Ulm and their crew of the Southern Cross "lost" in wild Australia. The flyers, who guided the Southern Cross across the Pacific from San Francisco to Brisbane, Australia last summer (TIME, June 18, 1928), had made a feint to fly from Sydney to London. Last week an Australian committee of inquiry found that they had considered, although not deliberately planned, "losing" themselves for purposes of publicity and money, that they "did not carry an efficient emergency radio set, did not ascertain whether emergency rations were...