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Flight Not Flown What Man Has Done Man Can Do—Newspaper Men Resolve toDo All Magazine Contemporaries Had Done and ManyThings They Had Left Undone. “N ever present ambition filled the mindsy}} of the intrepid editors to outdo andexcel their magazine predecessorsabroad in every experience and en-deavor. We met them in London onour arrival there, their mission com- AS pleted, home bound. Feigning an airof lofty disdain, Edward W. Bok of the Ladies’ HomeJournal asked why we had come:*'To end the war,” was the reply. ply Thereupon Bok cited the collapse of Bulgaria as anaccomplishment of his party.To this the defender of our party answered:“It’s all perfectly plain. We were within three days ofivcipeol and sent the Bulgarians a wireless sayingtwelve live American newspaper publishers—not maga-zine publishers, but real publishers—were coming. Witha look of abject defeat upon their faces they said,‘What ’s the use?’ threw up their hands and quit.” seAnd when our British hosts informed us that magazinemen had been invited to visit Ireland and to fly acrossthe English Channel and had done neither, we resolvedthat ignominy such as attached to magazine men shouldnot come to us. Told that a paramount feature of ourLondon to Paris journey was a flight over the English— 131 —
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