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...designers have incorporated one important safety feature. Icarus made the mistake of flying too near the sun, which melted the wax that held his wings together. The Hoppicopter's announced ceiling is a modest...
Best of the lot was a Dubliner whose name had none of the old sod in it. Louis Le Brocquy (rhymes with rocky), is only 29. His watercolors were roughly rubbed with wax and scarred with nervous jabs and dashes of India ink. He liked to paint Ireland's tinkers: the wandering tinsmiths and horse jobbers whose ability to turn broken nags into one-day blood horses, for sale at country fairs, is the stuff of Irish legend. One Le Brocquy painting of a little girl bathing in a canal (see cut) spoke of children everywhere...
...philosophy there is a Wonderful Valley which is very much like the Wonderful Valley of the New Deal. There the people are clothed, fed, sheltered and educated. But where some philosophers advocate jumping off the cliff (as Taft sees it) and trusting to wax-fastened wings to float them down into the valley, Taft would use the paths. He wants the American people to reach the Wonderful Valley with their bones intact...
...Conway, Hannes Shneider and company have been losing a lot of good base wax on a breakable crust, hiding 25 to 28 inches of snow, during the past week. Forecasted flurries in the higher elevations should leaven the lumps on the upper part of the trails and the threatened cold wave may pack and settle the lower snow fields by the time the weekend rolls around...
Married. Roscoe Turner, 51, gaudy, wax-mustachioed president of the Turner Aeronautical Corp. of Indianapolis, and one of the nation's most spectacular speed flyers of the last decade; and Margaret Madonna Miller, 29; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan...