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...speed record, until last week. After hundreds of hours of experimental flying-inverted, spinning, high speed-for which he holds the Distinguished Flying Cross. Lieut. Williams last year obtained the backing of air-minded tycoons in New York and Chicago to construct the Mercury, a waspish little projectile with a 24-cylinder, 1,200 h.p. Packard motor, to compete for the Schneider Cup (world speed trophy for seaplanes) at Cowes, England. But the Mercury, too heavy for her lifting power, never got far from the Severn River off Annapolis where she was tested (TIME, Aug. 19). Meantime, to continue nervy...
While Daughter Alicia napped and Publisher Patterson read Spanish papers, the amphibian proceeded to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Waspish U. S. Army pursuit planes rose to greet it. Luncheon was served amid bougainvillea blooms, mango trees, pomegranates. From the air the party later saw the craggy citadel where Blackamoor Christophe. self-appointed Henri I of Haiti, once dared Napoleon to come and get him. They saw the ruins of his palace of Sans Souci where the ebony ruler, stricken twice with paralysis, split his weary brain with a golden bullet from a jeweled pistol. They descended to visit the castle...
...they so often are, it was freely rumored that Yen and his Shansi were at best holding aloof and at worst were likely to attack Nanking. Last week, however, the Marshal pompously approached "Southern Capital" upon his private train, accompanied by wife and retinue. At the station stood slender, waspish President Chiang Kaishek, and strapping War Minister Feng Yu-hsiang. As Yen joined Chiang and Feng, press photographers snapped "China's Big Three...
Sponsored by exotic novelist M. Maurice de Waleffe were cool culottes de juillet (Breeches of July) much resembling the "shorts" already worn by smart U. S. males-as nether underwear. With the culottes is worn a waspish waisted jacket. Formal evening attire of quite similar cut was presented at Deauville in sheer green or violet silk, topped with a silk hat of matching hue, and completed by a nuvelle chemise-d'habille (new dress shirt)-soft,-collarless, and deeply "V" cut to display virile hirsute chests...
...always, business was stimulated by the spectacular. Spread out over the waspish little ship in which Bleriot first flew across the English Channel, stood the huge trimotored plane in which Commander Richard E. Byrd hopes to conquer the Antarctic. Opposite stood a model of the first Wright machine, in which man first made an honest flight a quarter of a century...