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Doubtless the Post was justified in refusing the article before (if it did so) and publishing it now, for from its text it is obvious that Commander Lansdowne was not a professional writer, for his manner is stilted. He is somewhat given to making obvious remarks, and before his death it was impossible to appreciate the last line of the article: "What the morrow may bring forth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Posthumous | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

...text of the article will doubtless be recorded by the President's Air Inquiry Board, and the Court cf Inquiry into the Shenandoah disaster will probably make much of it. In speaking the praises of dirigibles (which is the major function of the article), Commander Lansdowne himself apparently answered the statements of those who said that he feared to go on the fatal trip on account of weather conditions. The article said: -"The airplane is now reasonably safe, and the great airship inflated with helium is beyond a doubt the safest method of travel known to man, taking precedence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Posthumous | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

...signatory powers prepared to release to the world the full text of the agreements which they had signed at Locarno (TIME, Oct. 26), a specially leased trans-Atlantic cable was extended directly into the office of the American Associated Press, in order that this supernews might not be delayed by the usual relays and repeaters. Two operators, transcribing the dot-dashed ticker tape which reeled off the cable receptor at better than a word a second, "cleared the whole despatch of 5,000 words in less than two hours?a unique record in cable transmission...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: The Treaties | 11/2/1925 | See Source »

...very good baseball, at that; the members of the Douglas Chamber of Commerce and Mines (who pay the ball players) are glad that the outlaws are playing there. These facts seemed to be of sufficient general interest to warrant publication. No disparagement of anyone was intended. The full text of the article can be found on Page 31 of the Sept. 21 issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 19, 1925 | 10/19/1925 | See Source »

...play chosen is one written by Russia's most modernistic dramatist-producer. "The Paraclete," with the sub-title "for some a comedy, for others a drama" is a four-act play by Nikolai Evreinov. It will be translated from the original Russian text by W. L. Laurence '12, and will be directed by Edward Massey '15. Mr. Massey has directed the last few Dramatic Club productions with increasing success, and it is expected that the production this fall will meet with even greater approbation than has been accorded the other plays of the Dramatic Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MONODRAMA CHOSEN BY DRAMATIC CLUB | 10/16/1925 | See Source »

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