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...comment on and you may very well find some of them highly amusing, especially if you know The New Yorker like the inside of your favorite foulard. The humor depends too much on anagrams (Sawdorf-Postoria) and burlesques of well-known situations to suit our taste (the Thurber take-off scrambles grandfather, the attic bed and the six-cylinder Reo of Columbus, Ohio, fame in rather poor fashion). Good parody, it seems to us, should be funny in itself; but we hate to quibble and if you know what they're taking off from, the Namlerep piece and the Leigh...
...announce that they were going to land. Said Herman, "It wasn't very healthy up there in the dark in something that didn't have a motor in it." The brothers put their plane into a dive. At 10:05 - twelve hours and 52 minutes after the take-off - they glided to a landing. They had topped the American duration record by nearly three hours...
Howard Hughes yesterday flew his flying boat about one mile at an altitude of 70 feet during taxiing runs in the Los Angeles-Long Beach Harbor. The expected take-off was made at a speed of about 100 miles per hour. Hughes, however, did not think the plane's success would affect the attitude of the War Contracts Committee...
...Barclay Acheson, director of the Reader's Digest's International Editions, started for Stockholm to set up a Swedish-language edition. En route, his flying boat crashed on the take-off from Botwood, Newfoundland, and broke in half. The front half sank immediately. Acheson was saved only because he had stepped to the rear of the plane for a smoke just before the crash. This half stayed afloat long enough for him to be rescued. He took up his interrupted trip a week or so later...
Died. Roy A. Chadwick, 54, designer of the Lancaster, the R.A.F.'s highly successful World War II heavy bomber; in a take-off crash during a test of the Avro Tudor II, his design for a new long-range British transport; near Woodford, England...