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...ever since. In 1925 he founded the Ligue Internationale des Amateurs, which he dreamed would become a sort of international flying police force called Silver Wings of Peace. Instead it has become merely a clearing house for records and a donor of awards. Last week, the Ligue, of which stalwart, 68-year-old Clifford Harmon is still kingpin, announced the latest winner of its most important prize-the Harmon National Trophy for the year's outstanding feat in aviation. In the past it has been won by Flyers Post, Musick, Earhart. Winner for 1936: Millionaire Howard Hughes, for setting...
...last, because it seemed the natural thing to do. she let him take her husband's place. Then the German went to the trenches to be killed, and when Fannie bore his baby the village was willing to let her starve. Jean's brother Marc, a stalwart priest, got his atheist friend Gaure, a chemistry professor, to help him rig up a homemade wireless, to get news of the outside world. Before they knew it, both were involved in a far-flung spy system. Gaure was caught, tortured, shot. Later on Marc was arrested too, but only...
...longtime favorite of Manhattan art critics, Artist Benton was born in Neosho, Mo. 47 years ago. Legislatures are no novelty to him: his father was a Congressman, the great uncle for whom he was named was a Senator from Missouri, stalwart defender of President Andrew Jackson. After years of study in Paris when he imitated every known school of French painting, Artist Benton suddenly found himself in the U. S. Navy during the War, began to develop his well-known style: crowded panels of attenuated muscular figures painted in vibrant and sometimes consciously crude color. His first murals to attract...
...Akron and Macon plopped into the sea. Of the large rigid airships built since the War only those of Germany have been successful-the Los Angeles, now in retirement at Lakehurst, the stalwart old Graf Zeppelin, still shuttling the South Atlantic after carrying some 13,000 passengers without harm, and the new Hindenburg, which runs as safely on the same route...
...efforts to fight for the Republic!" That this was no idle bombast was evident when 6,000 Catalonians under debonair Anarchist Buenaventura Durruti marched to the relief of Madrid. Also fighting with the beleaguered Red militia, who for the first time were reported using poison gas, was a stalwart pro-Red column of volunteers, made up of Russians, Italians, French, Germans and Poles. From among Madrid's refugee-swollen population of 1,500,000, there were last week more than 50,000 actively defending the capital. General Franco's White Army totaled not more than 40,000. According...