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...first nonstop flight between New York and France.* Through the winter and early spring of 1927, the newspapers - then in one of the most aggressively competitive eras of American journalism - had promoted the race among Admiral Richard Byrd, the polar explorer, and others. In April, Noel Davis and Stanton Wooster were killed during a trial flight. Two other flyers disappeared. Lindbergh was the Midwestern dark horse, caricatured as a Minnesota rube, self-sufficient, spunky as a cowlick. The possibility of another death gave the public a shot of adrenaline: Death...
...Wodehouse; his literary output, as reliable and regular as the seasons, never faltered or faded. Until he died of a heart attack in his home on Long Island, N.Y., at the age of 93, many of his readers must have assumed that Wodehouse-like Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, his best-known literary creations-was immortal...
...addiction or not admired at all. Like all fanatics, Wodehouse readers could only feel sorry for those who lacked the special sense of humor that allowed them to wander through the sunlit gardens of that little Eden at Blandings or to guffaw as the omniscient Jeeves pulled addlepated Bertie Wooster out of the clutches of his Aunt Agatha or the local constabulary. Wodehouse addicts had their own favorite characters. The author himself confessed he bent toward Lord Emsworth, the daffy ninth Earl of Blandings, who spent most of his time escaping through the hedges from his domineering sister Constance...
Most of his readers assumed that Wodehouse lived in Mayfair, around the block from Bertie Wooster's Drones Club, or in Shropshire, near Blandings Castle. In fact, the most English of English writers lived most of his life in the U.S., which always had a romantic attraction for him. "America's never been a foreign country to me," he said not long ago. "It always seemed like my own country. I don't know why, but I'd much sooner live here than in England...
...Vikings b. Cowboys c. Dolphins d. ill-fated knick e. Original Met f. Hockey team g. Harvard B-Ball star h. Geoffrion i. Steve Wooster-Texas football player j. Reese...