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...hours and 21 minutes a creature soared silently, with motionless wings, near Koenigsberg, Germany, one day last week. A thunder shower forced it to earth. It was the glider Goethen, holder of the previous world's record of 5 hr. 40 min. for motorless heavier-than-air craft with pilot and passenger.* It bore Ferdinand Schulz and a companion. Pilot Schulz's skill lies in utilizing air currents after leaving a lofty takeoff, as do eagles and other birds capable of staying aloft for hours with never a wing beat. He declares he is confident...
Comes terrifically the storm on Masterson's yacht. For one brief hour all his self-doubting and humility are forgotten as he drives his yacht through the deadly seas. Power, command, cunning, endurance are his in the thunder and torrent. Proudly, happily weary, when dawn breaks upon conquered seas, he descends to the cabins. He would go to his wife. Outside her door he finds his Abyssinian servant, crouching, knife in hand...
There will be three judges for the competition, all of them well known in the world of letters. Cristopher Morley who is one of the judges, has written many popular books, his latest, Thunder on the Left, having created very much of a stir in literary circles. Zona Gale and William McLee are prominent as educators and authors...
...Fairbanks, Alaska, March 11.-The thunder of high-powered airplane motors rolled across the little town of Fairbanks this afternoon and gave audible proof that Captain Wilkins and his fellow aviators...
...purely physical reasons, the desire to keep the Stadium turf in perfect shape for the contests next fall, while the erection of a board fence is but natural, since it is hardly to be expected that a new mentor would desire to reveal the full import of his thunder, six months ahead of his first season...