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...flyer who thus narrowly avoided death was Squadron Leader F. D. R. ("Ferdie") Swain, 33-year-old Royal Air Force test pilot. A voluble, keen-faced bachelor, he entered the R. A. F. in 1922, served in Ismailia, Heliopolis, commanded a test flight in Africa during which he crashed in the bush, was provisioned by parachute and rescued by a special safari. Last June he was appointed to a crack experimental group at Farnborough. In his flight last week he carried a silver figurine of St. Christopher as mascot, relished his narrow squeak, as he explained afterward, because "flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transport: Ferdie's Flight | 10/12/1936 | See Source »

Coach Bert Haines is drilling two Freshman 150 crews daily, but still declines to pick either one as the first. These two crews have lined up with Dresser, Nailson, Richardson, Goodwin, Swain, Wulsin, Whitney, and Korbell in one boat and Rogers, Anderson, Phalle, Enos, Chase, Cheever, Myers, and Gilkey in the other, with Barrett and Ballon as coxes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN BOATS WORK OUT IN COLD DRIZZLE | 4/8/1936 | See Source »

...besides entertainment and silverware; 2) hers is a consuming desire to be a cinema star. Last summer at the neat Henie country place just outside Oslo, she discussed with her parents her longtime ambition. They heartily approved the idea. Wary of professional managers, including Sonja's faithful swain, 40 year-old Promoter Jefferson Davis ("Tex Rickard of Europe") Dickson, they made contact with a longtime friend named Dennis Scanlon. Mr. Scanlon, who runs a surgical-instrument factory in Sweden but lives in Manhattan, promptly set to work to ballyhoo Sonja to Hollywood by way of a U.S. skating tour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Astaire on Ice | 3/30/1936 | See Source »

...have received consolation in this letter from Dr. Murphree: "I appreciate your faithfulness and your friendship. The advertising that came to the University through your generous proposal concerning me has shown results in greatly increased correspondence with prospective Florida settlers from all sections of the United States." J. E. SWAIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 14, 1935 | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

...York City Right is Reader Swain. Ballyhooer Bryan was paid at the rate of $75,000 a year for two years by George E. Merrick, promoter of Coral Gables. He received $100.000 cash, $50.000 in real estate. Mourned Promoter Merrick: "I wish I had him now."-ED. Same Meat Sirs: Need Hitlerite "Bait" Rosenberg waste all those words to explain a concept of holiness [TIME, Sept. 30]? Twenty-one years ago, it was compacted into the simple phrase, "Gott mit Vns." The world understood it then and still does understand it. And no matter how thin Spiritualist Rosenberg may slice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 14, 1935 | 10/14/1935 | See Source »

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