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Dates: during 1930-1939
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STOREVIK-Gøsta af Geijerstam-Dutton ($2). Life on a Norway fjord: a bucolic Scandinavian approximation to the simplicity and fresh charm of Mrs. Roosevelt's column...
...tiny yellow Aeronca, at $1,355 a Porterfield Zephyr. At $2,468 was the Rearwin Sportster, which flew in from Kansas City on $10.68 in fuel. Speediest looking of the little planes was the Ryan STA, only all-metal job as cheap as $4,885. In a higher bracket were the bigger ships like Bellanca ($23,000), Beechcraft C17R ($14,500), Stinson Reliant ($7,985), Waco ($5,395), Luscombe ($5,500), Monocoupe ($3,825), Argonaut ($5.450), Fairchild 24 ($5,590), stainless steel Fleetwing ($18,500), each with room for several passengers in luxurious automobile-like cabins. Great majority were cabin...
...COMING - Gösta Gustaf-Janson-Knopf...
Besides being a Cabinet Minister, a Deputy, a party chief and Mayor of Lyon, Edouard Herriot, thrice Premier of France, manages to turn out a good book almost every year. He may write about politics, the history of religions, archaeology or Madame de Staël. His study in Lyon is a jumble of dusty documents, old pipes, broken spectacles. In it there is also an old-fashioned upright piano, stacks of music which M. Herriot likes to play. Published for the first time in English last week was a Herriot book on Beethoven, the composer who appeals most...
...earliest aerial-wedding proposal on record was made by the French Socialist Philosopher Claude Henri de Rouvroy, Comte de Saint-Simon. In 1802 he learned of the death of the husband of famed Essayist Mme Anne Louise Germaine de Staël. Promptly the Comte divorced his own wife, hastened to Geneva, informed Mme de Stael that he and she, ''the most extraordinary persons who exist.'' would be married in a balloon and would create a child "who will startle the world at large." Mme de Staël said...