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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Solo Endurance. Vern Speich, Santa Ana, Calif., automobile salesman, kept his plane up 38 hrs., 48 sec. at Long Beach, Calif., last week, thus breaking the non-refueling solo endurance record (36 hrs., 56 min., 36 sec.) of Lieut. Herbert J. Fahy.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: France to Manchuria | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Near Tuckahoe, N. J., Johnny di Rocco, 13, hunting with some friends in a cedar swamp, sighted a low-flying hawk, raised his gun, fired. Over the tops of some corn stalks they saw a man topple, fall. Breathlessly they waited for a sign from the cornfield. Johnny, panic-stricken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

¶ In Hollywood, an insurance company hired agents to get information on the morals of cinema people applying for policies. Those intimate with the wives, husbands of others, those who patronize bootleggers, stay up late, were recently refused policies as bad risks.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Variations Oct. 14, 1929 | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Seeker. These sights are interlinked with a perpetual seeking. At first the author senses a mystery; he wishes to know "how it is with human beings." Girls, he decides, are the mystery, for even the complex Ferd, whom he plainly adores, is not. With Hilde he craftily sets about a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Behind the Front | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

Outside the post a great many of us lay on the ground in the dark. They carried wounded in and brought them out. I could see the light come out from the dressing station when the curtain opened and they brought someone in or out. The dead were off to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man, Woman, War | 10/14/1929 | See Source »

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