The Archive · 1930

New Magic Carpet of the Age

Hollywood, Apr. 18, ichord Halliburton, professional "adventurer" who has displayed 1 market ability to coin his exploits into profitable magazine articles and books, announced to-day that he tends to fly from New York to Arabia by way of Pari Plans for the project are nearly complete, he said. The date has not yet been settled for the start.

Mz. Halliburton's most recent venture was a swim through the Panama Canal, with the purpose of writing @ hook about the feat. Observers who gathered for the start} with the idea that they were to almost superhuman ¢x-of endurance were surprised discover that Mr. Halliburton stopped for the day after a few miles progress, buoyed the point where he stopped, and thereafter completed the swim over several weeks by progressing a short distance each day and taking up -his trip next morning from the previous halting-point—United Press,

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