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...Since the Soviet Union is not represented in Federation Aeronautique Internationale its records are not officially recognized. However, both Osoaviakhim's and last year's Red Army performances surpass the official world's record of 61,237 ft. made last November by Lieut. Commander G. W. ("Tex") Settle, U. S. N. and Major Chester L. Fordney...
...Negro population exceeds that of Kentucky. Above its enormous immigrant foundation is a socialite crust that knows wealth, culture, good living. It has opera, music, art, museums to offset its physical crudities. It is strong, lusty, loud and ambitious. Many a Chicagoan confidently predicts that his city will soon surpass New York in size and importance, become "The Paris of the West." Yet in the matter of mayors, Chicago has not kept pace with its other manifestations of greatness. Irish son of an Irish policeman, Edward Joseph Kelly was born 57 May Days ago on Chicago's West 38th...
...alertness and dispatch of the Columbia Broadcasting System in sending the whole nation an account of the Zangara shooting by one who witnessed it at Miami surpass even Fred W. Mizer's unnewshawkliness in failing to recount the affair as it was happening to the audience of WQAM, 1,000-watts (TIME...
Three new German singers have helped to make this season's Ring performances surpass those of many years: Soprano Frida Leider, whose Briinnhilde last week made startlingly credible the creature half goddess, half woman, which Wagner imagined, dark handsome Contralto Maria Olszewska, who like Frida Leider used to sing with the Chicago Civic Opera; Basso Ludwig Hofmann whose Hagen was a model of malevolence. These three with Tenor Lauritz Melchior, the Siegfried, and Baritone Friedrich Schorr, who last week was Hagen's weak-kneed half-brother Gunther, caused Critic Lawrence Gilman to write in the Herald Tribune...
Knoxville "now appears to have as well balanced a program for the control of tuberculosis as any city in the South, and certainly no Southern city of like size* is likely to surpass...