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...experiment of bringing up an infant ape under identical conditions with a human infant was reported in outline last year by Winthrop Niles Kellogg, associate professor of psychology at Indiana University (TIME, May 23, 1932). Last week Dr. Kellogg, with his wife collaborating, detailed in a book* their curious stunt, the fun and trouble they...
...Bernie is master of ceremonies in the College Inn night club, and the Fort Dearborn, a low-priced house catering to railroad workers. Ernie Byfield is president of College Inn Products, Inc. (not in receivership) which claims to have invented the tomato juice cocktail. Last year as a publicity stunt he imported 20 dozen penguin eggs. The Customs House promptly impounded the eggs for violation of the Federal law forbidding the importation of wild fowl eggs. Wrote Ernie Byfield to the Customs House: ''Let me assure you that the penguin, even in its natural habitat...
...favorite Bonette stunt is the ''bomb drop." At the proper moment the daredevil, who has been stunting on the trapeze, hanging by knees and by teeth, pulls a cord releasing a bag of bombs which explode beneath the balloon, enveloping it in a cloud of smoke and a glorious blaze of fireworks. Completely concealed he then yanks his "quickknife" cord, a gadget which cuts the parachute free...
...yellow." Herndon made no public reply, but a school of Pangborn-sympathizers nursed the belief that Pangborn had been treated shabbily. The whole business was soon forgotten by the public, until last month when Liberty published an article by Aviatrix Elinor Smith entitled "I'm Fed Up With Stunt Flying." This revived the old gossip, with embellishments. Excerpts...
...start] that Pangborn was to be the pilot and that Herndon was to be a sort of glorified passenger and relief pilot if the occasion warranted. ... As a professional flyer I have no more sympathy with a Herndon who will deliberately convert a scientific undertaking into a personal publicity stunt, than I have with a Hutchinson [George R. Hutchinson, father of the 'Flying Family' which cracked up off Greenland] who undertakes a personal stunt under the guise of science. I think that the activities of both of these types of stunt flyers should be exposed and stopped...