Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Journal and American printed a lengthy obituary on fun-loving old Author Logan Pearsall Smith (Trivia, More Trivia, All Trivia, Re-perusals and Re-collections). So did the New York Times in its early editions. Both newspapers later announced that Author Smith was not dead at all. Explanation: from publishers Little, Brown & Co. in Boston had come false reports of the death of Mr. Smith, recovering from pneumonia in Reykjavik, Iceland...
...order to make air-minded but temporarily air-sated readers even mildly interested in the twelfth transatlantic flight in the past month (Lufthansa's four-motored Focke-Wulf "Condor" Brandenburg, from Berlin to New York City and return), newspapers were obliged to run banner headlines about SECRECY. Even this ruse failed to excite thorough readers. Day before, they had seen an Associated Press dispatch announcing the exact hour of departure, predicting the time of arrival within three hours...
...prognostication was much closer to the mark than its customer-newspapers' fabrication, nevertheless, the Lufthansa's remarkably precise shuttle, by far the most important of the Atlantic flights, caused so little stir in the U. S. that it might just as well have been secret. New York City's whitewings had just cleaned up 1,900 tons of paper thrown into the streets in honor of an Irishman who had managed to hit Ireland. The clocklike navigation of the Brandenburg's, crew, in contrast, was feebly cheered by only 2,000 people...
...something that went out with the 1890s. In 1932 only 180,000 bicycles were sold, about one-fifth the annual sale before 1900. Since then, however, bicycling has had an astonishing revival. Last year U. S. citizens bought more bicycles (1,300,000) than ever before. Last week New York's efficient, hard-working Park Commissioner Robert Moses, who has spent over $500,000,000 building parks and boulevards, announced a plan to take cyclists off the streets. Throughout parks and along drives in New York's five boroughs, he proposed to build 58.75 miles of winding, four...
Died. Antonio Ajello, 78, master candlemaker; of a heart attack; in The Bronx, New York. To Mussolini, Pope Pius XI, Lindbergh, Galli-Curci, Marie of Rumania, many another big & little wig have gone sweet-scented Ajello tapers, fashioned from a formula that has been a family secret for 165 years. Most famed Ajello candle, world's largest, is 18 feet high and five feet around, weighs almost a ton, cost $3,700. Raised by public subscription in 1921 as a memorial to Enrico Caruso, it now stands in the Church of Our Lady of Pompeii (Italy), where it burns...