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...sultry Sunday morning in August 1928, a long-legged, eight-year-old youngster stood in his father's alfalfa patch near Santaquin, Utah. Suddenly an airplane cleared its way through the haze, circled the field a few times, landed a few feet from the boy. The pilot, for no apparent reason, called to the boy and asked him if he would like a lift. The boy said his father was down at the Mormon Church at the moment, and he wouldn't mind going if they were back before church was out. So they took off, flipped around...
...them have never learned to drive a car, and their judgment of speed is limited or nonexistent. Baffled by U.S. slang, most of them need informal instruction before they get the hang of it. Not long ago, a U.S. instructor in a plane with a 21-year-old British youngster advised him to "give her the gun." Said the youth: "But, sir, I have no gun. In England we are not allowed to carry them." Despite this unfamiliarity with the American language, some of the boys at Southern camps wind up with thick Southern accents, go hog-wild over orange...
Richard Dyer-Bennet, Lute Singer (Keynote album). Minstrelsy by a light-voiced youngster (TIME, Oct. 13), ranging from the 17th-Century Golden Vanity to a current Anzac favorite, The Swagman (or Waltzing Matilda...
...biology as a curious youngster, and it remained biology through high school, college, graduate work, as National Research Fellow, International Education Board Fellow at Brussels, Freiburg, and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin--Dahlem, as assistant professor at Brown University in 1926-27, as assistant professor at Harvard in 1927, and as Master of Leverett House...
...final, 7-5, 6-2; at the Philadelphia Cricket Club, Philadelphia. Few weeks ago, up-&-coming Miss Brough, displaying an astounding serve, trounced Sarah Palfrey Fabyan Cooke, one of the foremost challengers for the National Women's championship to be played at Forest Hills this week. Youngster Brough will compete at Forest Hills...