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Constance Savery
Constance Winifred Savery (31 October 1897 – 2 March 1999) was a British author of fifty novels and children's books, as well as many short stories and articles. She was selected for the initial issue of the long-running series entitled The Junior Book of Authors (1951–2008) and for the first, 1971, volume of Anne Commire's Something About the Author, which reached volume 320 in 2018. Savery's World War II novel, Enemy Brothers, received praise   and remains in print. In 1980, at age eighty-two, she completed a Charlotte Brontë two-chapter fragment, which was published as "Emma by Charlotte Brontë and Another Lady". The book was translated into Dutch, Spanish, and Russian.

Reared in a Wiltshire vicarage, Savery was prepared for university study at King Edward VI High School for Girls in Birmingham. Earning an Exhibition (scholarship) to Somerville College, Oxford, she read English, and in 1920 was in the first group of women to be awarded a degree by the University of Oxford. Seventy-five years later, she was honoured at Oxford as the last surviving member of that event. She remained active to the end of a long life, completing a handwritten, 692-page revision of an unpublished manuscript just prior to her ninety-ninth birthday.

Personal life
Savery was born on 31 October 1897, the first of the five daughters of John Manly Savery, who was vicar of All Saints Church, Froxfield, Wiltshire. Since her mother's name was also Constance, she was Winifred everywhere except on the title pages of her books. By age ten she was filling scraps from waste paper baskets with short stories and poems, one of which was later incorporated into what she considered her best book, The Memoirs of Jack Chelwood. If that poem is included, she wrote something in every decade of the twentieth century that appeared eventually in print.

In 1907 the family moved to Birmingham, where Savery would attend the King Edward VI High School for Girls. She entered Somerville College at the University of Oxford in 1917 and graduated in 1920 with Second Class Honours in English. After earning a teaching certificate from the University of Birmingham, she taught English at the King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls, but when her mother died in 1925, she accepted her father's invitation to assist him at his new parish of Middleton-cum-Fordley near Saxmundham in Suffolk. When her father retired from Middleton in 1930, he purchased Trevalfry, a semi-detached house up the coast in Reydon near Southwold. After his death in 1939, Savery would remain at Trevalfry with a chronically ill sister, Phyllis, until 17 May 1977, when the sisters moved to Cherry Trees, a cottage in Dumbleton, Gloucestershire, near Evesham. That April, aged 79, she toured the Holy Land with her sister Doreen.

Following the death of Phyllis and the publication of Emma (1980), Savery was joined in Dumbleton by another sister, Christine. Limited mobility kept both sisters at home, where Savery wrote unpublished novels for Doreen during her terminal illness. When Christine's medical problems increased, requiring that she move in 1989 to Resthaven, a nursing home near Stroud, Savery accompanied her. Handicapped by arthritis and partial blindness, Savery continued to write, although her Christian novels no longer found publishers.

In 1995, the University of Oxford celebrated the seventy-fifth anniversary of the awarding of degrees to women, and Savery attended as a guest of honour. She was invited back to Oxford in May 1996 and in October 1997, just prior to her 100th birthday. She died on 2 March 1999. A single headstone, with her epitaph on one side and her sister Christine's on the other, marks their graves in the Pitchcombe graveyard near Resthaven. Christine, Doreen, and Phyllis Savery were also published authors.

In common with half of her Somerville classmates, Savery never married and in a letter to a correspondent reported having received only one compliment from a gentleman in her life: "You have a very nice mouth" – but as the gentleman was a dentist, it was a professional statement.

Writing career
During vacations while attending Oxford, Savery wrote long melodramatic stories, which she labelled as trash, about suffering children undergoing psychological abuse from unfeeling guardians who were reclaimed in the last chapters by virtuous women. During the 1930s she wrote numerous short stories for Christian magazines, for broadcast on the BBC Children's Hour, and for lavishly illustrated children's annuals. A novel, Forbidden Doors, (1929) was published in England and, somewhat revised as Tenthragon (1930), in the United States. Both received respectful reviews. Tenthragon was succeeded by the first of many Christian books for children, Nicolas Chooses White May (1930), and two additional stories with children as protagonists, Pippin's House (1931) and Green Emeralds for the King (1938). She also wrote seven services of song, short narratives with interspersed hymns furnished by the publisher.

The onset of World War II brought paper shortages. Magazines shrank, the Christmas annuals disappeared, and publishers returned manuscripts because they did not have the paper to publish them. Americans had more paper, and Savery wrote nine successive children's books for Longmans, Green, & Co. in the United States. One of these, Enemy Brothers, has already been mentioned, and another, The Good Ship Red Lily, received praise and the Junior Scholastic Magazine Gold Seal Award in 1944. Junior Literary Guild Selections included Magic in My Shoes and The Reb and the Redcoats.

When the war was over, and paper was available again, Savery wrote to the Lutterworth Press offering them a story about a young girl forced to attend a strange school, King Arthur's, to board with a large family that lived in St. Matthew's Vicarage, and to commute to the school by train. Savery herself attended King Edward's School, came from a sizable family that lived in St. Mark's Vicarage, and also commuted by rail. The story, Redhead at School, had a Christian setting, but the Lutterworth editor asked for a more evangelical message, offering a fifty percent increase in the stipend and an earlier publication date. Savery declined, and the book was published in 1951 as she wrote it. Subsequently, the Lutterworth Press accepted and published twenty-five additional Savery titles. These stories were advertised as reward books, gifts for worthy Sunday School students. Savery's were praised in the secular press for their characterizations and dialogue. Frequently reprinted, some were translated into German, French, Swedish, or Norwegian.

In addition to the Lutterworth stories, Savery wrote three Christian stories for Pickering & Inglis and four for the Victory Press, of which Blue Fields (1947), previously issued as a serial, was the most successful. As the protagonist is a self-punishing thirteen-year-old boy, the book is not appropriate for young children.

The most widely distributed of Savery's books was Emma (1980). Charlotte Brontë began the story, but died after writing only two chapters in which Emma is not identified. Savery completed the story and the publisher, J. M. Dent & Sons, accepted the story "by return of post." As published, seventeen pages were written by Brontë, the remaining 181 pages by Savery. The New York Times reviewer wrote, "If Emma had no connection with Charlotte Bronte, one might happily accept it on its own terms: the pellmell sequence of exciting events sustains attention and provides diversion," but it was not the book that Brontë would have written. Savery was identified only as Another Lady until the original book went out of print, but she was compensated by generous terms, excellent sales, and translations into Dutch, Spanish, and Russian. Only the Russian edition identified "Another Lady" as Constance Savery.

In 1918, Savery had written a short story, The Wyverne Chronicles, about a missionary family in China. It was extended in 1920 and 1921 with the addition of scapegrace Nick Urquhart, nicknamed Quicksilver, and by 1925 the story had become a novel. It was revisited in every year from 1926 to 1938 except 1928 and at least twenty more times between 1944 and 1968. It was turned down by the Lutterworth Press in 1951 and went to other publishers as late as 1977. It underwent five title changes before Savery settled on The Quicksilver Chronicle. By the end of her residence at Resthaven, Savery's eyesight permitted her to read, with a magnifying glass, one word at a time, in natural light, when the sun was highest. Nevertheless, she undertook a rewriting of Quicksilver despite an inability to read either her previous draft or what she was writing. So she wrote on widely spaced lines to prevent a line from falling on top of the line that preceded it. She completed her revision six weeks before her ninety-ninth birthday. When transcribed and printed, the novel was 215 pages long.

Prior to her death, Savery authorized the republication of The Reb and the Redcoats (1999) and Enemy Brothers (2001). The book that Savery considered her best, The Memoirs of Jack Chelwood, was privately printed after her death.

Distinguishing features
With few exceptions, when Savery was not writing for children, she was writing about children, and even in her reward books with an evangelical editor looking over her shoulder, her children came alive on the page. Reviews praise her prose and characterizations.

She wrote to instruct and to inspire. When she wrote, "His good and middlingly good characters are ten times more alive than his… villains," to describe Talbot Baines Reed, she was describing her own fiction as well, and as with Elizabeth Goudge, a contemporary, her antagonists rarely received retribution.

Large families were common when Savery was born, and she had four sisters. Many of her books feature large families, and love between siblings is central to her better books, even when the siblings are in conflict.

Because a small difference in age makes a great difference to children, twins abound. In some books, such as Green Emeralds for the King, the twins oppose each other. In other books, such as Four Wonders for Wyn, they cooperate. In Moonshine in Candle Street, the twins, like Samneric in Lord of the Flies, function as a single character. In other stories, such as Gilly's Tower, the twin plays no part, but he or she is mentioned, because Savery wrote twins into her stories. Forbidden Doors and Magic in My Shoes feature triplets.

Although she began writing seriously in the 1920s and 1930s, her books avoid the racial stereotyping of that era. Two later books, The Royal Caravan and The Drifting Sands, challenge racism, and Three Houses in Beverley Road counters anti-Semitism.

Collections of Savery's papers

 * The Constance Savery papers at the Knight Library, University of Oregon, include most of Savery's manuscripts, published and unpublished, her work diaries, and her correspondence with publishers.
 * The Savery collection at the de Grummond Children's Literature Collection, University of Southern Mississippi, includes over three thousand family letters with their digital transcripts, children's annuals containing most of Savery's short stories for children, and book proofs from her American publisher.

Adult novels

 * Forbidden Doors (1929)
 * Tenthragon (1930)
 * Emma (1980; with Charlotte Brontë)
 * The Memoirs of Jack Chelwood (2004; posthumous)

Children's literature

 * Pippin's House (1931)
 * Moonshine in Candle Street (1937)
 * Green Emeralds for the King (1938)
 * Enemy Brothers (1943)
 * The Good Ship Red Lily (1944)
 * Emeralds for the King (1945)
 * Dark House on the Moss (1949)
 * Redhead at School (1951)
 * Welcome, Santza (1956)
 * Magic in My Shoes (1958)
 * The Reb and the Redcoats (1961)

Sunday school reward books

 * Three Houses in Beverley Road (1950)
 * Meg Plays Fair (1953)
 * Young Elizabeth Green (1954)
 * Five Wonders for Wyn (1955)
 * Tabby Kitten (1956)
 * In Apple Alley (1958)
 * To the City of Gold (1958)
 * The Sea Urchins (1959)
 * Rebel Jacqueline (1960)
 * All Because of Sixpence (1961)
 * The White Kitling (1962)
 * The Royal Caravan (1963)
 * Breton Holiday (1963)
 * Joric and the Dragon (1964)
 * Please Buy My Pearls (1965)
 * The Sea Queen (1965)
 * The Golden Cap (1966)
 * The Strawberry Feast (1967)
 * The Silver Angel (1968)
 * Lavender's Tree (1969)
 * Gilly's Tower (1969)
 * The Sapphire Ring (1969)
 * The City of Flowers (1970)
 * The Drifting Sands (1971)

Picture book

 * Four Lost Lambs (1957)

Evangelical children's books

 * Nicholas Chooses White May (1930)
 * Yellow Gates (1935)
 * Danny and the Alabaster Box (1937)
 * Peter of Yellow Gates (1945)
 * Up a Winding Stair (1949)
 * Scarlet Plume (1953)
 * The Boy from Brittany (1957)
 * Flight to Freedom (1958)
 * Thistledown Tony (1958)

Evangelical books for adults

 * Blue Fields (1947)
 * Sir Dominic's Scapegrace (1947; as Elizabeth Cloberry)

Drama

 * No King But Christ (1976)

Short story collection

 * There Was a Key (1930)

Services of song

 * The Christmas Flower Shop (1932)
 * Gifts of Gold (1935)
 * In His Steps (1935; adaptation of novel by C. M. Sheldon)
 * God's Promises (1936)
 * His Brother's Keeper (1936; adaptation of novel by C. M. Sheldon)
 * The Christmas Cloak (1937)
 * White Unto Harvest (1938)

Biographies

 * She Went Alone: Mary Bird of Persia (1942)
 * Bishop Guy Bullen (1948)
 * God's Arctic Adventurer: The Story of William Bompas (1973)

Horseshoes -- History
The games of horseshoes and quoits are closely related. For information on the early history of horseshoes, see the entry on quoits. At the beginning of the twentieth century, there was a general agreement about how horseshoes should be played, but details differed. Organizers of horseshoe matches published their own rules in local newspapers. The most dramatic difference from the modern game was the peg or pin, as the center stake was called, which protruded only two inches from the ground. The horseshoes were true horseshoes, nearly circular in shape, and, as in quoits, the expectation was that a ringer would land around the peg and remain there, some insisting the shoe not touch the peg.

In the 1907 "World Championship", shoes that rested two feet from the peg were declared foul, and cost the player a half-point each. A player could score one or two points if his shoes were closer to the peg than his opponent's. Ringers scored five points, and leaners, three. A player who capped or slid under an opponent's ringer with one of their own, a difficult achievement with a two-inch peg, was rewarded ten points. Topping two ringers by an opponent with a ringer of one's own earned fifteen points, and two ringers topping two ringers earned twenty-one points. There were similar rewards for topping a leaner with a leaner or a leaner with a ringer.

In 1920, the Chicago Horseshoe Tournament prescribed a peg eight inches above the ground. A shoe resting two feet from the peg was still foul, but no longer cost the player points. A distinction was made between a perfect ringer, which circled the peg when it struck the ground, and a scratch ringer, which circled the peg in some other manner. These scored five points and three points respectively. Leaners were also worth three points. There were no bonuses for topping opponents.

By 1925, local newspapers were citing the rules used at the national tournament, "as adopted by the national association January 1, 1925." Stakes were 40 feet apart and projected upward 10 inches. The scoring was close to what is observed today, without penalty points, bonuses for topping, or special attention to leaners.

Even in more recent years, local rules continue. "Whether a 'leaner' will count as one or two points is up to the home team" in one contest. As successful as the NHPA (National Horse Pitchers Association) has been, there are still those who find a park, drive stakes in the ground about thirteen strides apart, and wait for others to appear once the chiming begins.

Aeris Naviter
Aeris Naviter, S. L. was a Spanish company that designed, produced, and certified flying prototypes using Rotordynamic technology. These included the AN-1 AeroQuad and the AN-2 Enara. The company went into receivership in 2017.

History
Aeris Naviter was founded in San Sebastián, Spain, in 2006 and attracted notice with the AN-1 AeroQuad at the Paris Air Show the following year. The AN-1 successor, the AN-2 Enara, was displayed at the Paris show in 2009. Its certification was delayed, but they were offered for sale on January 1, 2011. As of 2013, the prototype had not been flown. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2016, and its assets were dispersed in 2017.

Products
Likely the lightest aircraft at the 2007 Paris Air Show at 100 kilograms, the AN-1 AeroQuad was a self-stabilized coaxial flying platform steered by simply leaning. It could carry up to 200 kilograms and was marketed both assembled and as a kit. Its 2009 successor, the AN-2 Enara, was designed for a pilot and one passenger. The AN-2, which weighed 390 kilograms with a useful load of 210 kilograms, was powered by a BMW four-cylinder motorcycle engine and cruised at 170 km/h with a range of 460 kilometers.

1967
The 1967 air show was opened by French President Charles de Gaulle, who toured the exhibits and shook hands with two Soviet cosmonauts and two American astronauts. Prominently displayed by the Soviet Union was a three-stage Vostok rocket, such as the one that had carried Yuri Gagarin into space on April 12, 1961. The "extraordinarily powerful" Vostok was downplayed by American missile experts as "rather old and unsophisticated." . The American exhibit, the largest at the fair, featured the F-111 swing-wing fighter bomber, a replica of Charles Lindberg's Spirit of St. Louis. and the Ling-Temco-Vought XC-142A, a cargo plane capable of a vertical takeoff and landing. A full-size model of the supersonic Concorde was displayed by the French and British, auguring its successful first flight on March 2, 1969.

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1969
"The largest plane in the world," the Boeing 747 jet airliner, arrived at the show on June 3, after flying non-stop from Seattle, Washington, and the Apollo 8 command module, charred by its re-entry, was there flanked by the Apollo 9 astronauts, but the most-viewed exhibit was the supersonic Concorde, which made its first flight over Paris as the show opened.

1971
The Soviet TU-144 supersonic airliner was flown to Le Bourget for the Paris Air Show, drawing comparisons with the French Concorde. Landing with the Concorde was the world's largest aircraft, the American Lockheed C-5A Galaxy.

1973
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1975
One hundred and eighty-two aircraft were scheduled for appearance. Despite restrictions that followed the TU-144 crash in 1973, a day of flying pleased viewers. In particular, the American YF-16 and the French Mirage F-1E competed in turn before a critical audience. Days later, Belgium became the fourth European nation to choose the YF-16 over the F-1E.

1977
Celebration of Charles Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight to Le Bourget fifty years ago recalled that historic event. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Lindbergh's widow, attended the ceremony along with early trans-Atlantic pilots, Maurice Bellonte and Armand Lotti. Recent extension of coastal limits to 200 nautical miles has produced new maritime-reconnaissance (MR) aircraft. The crash of a Fairchild A-10 tank-destroyer led to tightened rules on air show demonstrations.

1979
Two airliners, the Airbus A310 and the Boeing 767, are competing for the international market, but neither will carry passengers before 1982. The Westland WG30 transport helicopter shows promise. "The Mirage 4000 remains a question mark" despite being "surely the main highlight this year at Le Bourget."

1981
Exhibiting at the show, Airbus, Boeing, and McDonnell Douglas/Fokker vie for the 150-seat airline market, while Rolls Royce/Japan, General Electric/Snecma (CFM), and Pratt & Whitney contest for their engines. The Northrop F-5G Tigershark mockup was on display and expected to fly in 1982 with delivery the following year. A novelty was Air Transat, a light aircraft trans-Atlantic race from Le Bourget to Sikorsky Memorial Airport, Bridgeport, Connecticut and back, won by a twin engine Piper Navaho and a Beechcraft Bonanza.

1983
The American Space Shuttle Enterprise was flown around Paris and towered over other exhibits, but "much more intriguing" were replicas of two twin-engined fighters, the British Aerospace ACA and French Dassault Breguet ACX. Sales of Boeing 757 and Airbus A310 airliners to Singapore Airlines were welcome news during an ongoing recession.

1985
The Soviet Antonov An-124 Ruslan military heavy lifter was the largest exhibit in 1985. Propfan engines stirred interest. Reflecting the upturn in the economy, Boeing and Airbus announced new contracts totaling as much as $1,700 million. The Hubble space telescope should be deployed in 1986.

1987
Newly introduced, in the rain, were the Soviet Mil Mi-34 Helicopter, the Israeli Super Phantom, and the Harrier GR.5. Airbus announced firm orders for both the A330 and A340 airliners. Exhibiting at the show for the first time, the Chinese displayed, among others, the A-5C Attacker (Fantan) and FT-7. Richard Rutan and Jeana Yeager, who flew a Voyager non-stop around the world without refueling, were present, but their aircraft was not.

1991
Despite a Department of Defense display of the Stealth bomber and other Gulf War armaments, most American contractors stayed home, so Soviet aircraft drew attention, among them the Beriev Be-42 Mermaid (A-40 Albatros) amphibian, the MiG-31 Foxhound interceptor, and the Yak-141 short take-off/vertical landing (ASTOVL) supersonic fighter. When it receives its first customer order, Dassault plans to begin production of the Mirage 2000-5, which is a "new machine compared to the basic Mirage 2000."

1993
The show attracted 1,611 exhibitors from 39 countries and nearly 300,000 visitors attended the show. Dassault featured the debut of the Falcon 2000, and Airbus will manufacture the 130-seat A319.

1997
America Eagle announced purchase of forty-two EMB-145 regional jets from Embraer and twenty-five Global Express airliners from Bombardier. Spectators saw two Eurofighter Typhoon EF2000s flying together. A full-scale mock-up of the Bell Boeing 609 civil tilt-rotor aircraft attracted attention. IAR Brasov featured a prototype Anti-Tank Optronic Search and Combat System (SOCAT) helicopter, an upgrade of the IAR-330 Puma.

1999
The 1999 show continued a trend away from displays of new aircraft toward announcements of new contracts. Although new entries such as the Fairchild 30-seat 328JET and the Boeing 100-seat 717-200 attracted interest, airlines ordered as many as 103 Embraer ERJ-135s and 145s in addition to a 4.9 billion-dollar order for ERJ-170s and ERJ-190-200s. In February, the Russian Il-103 received US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approval, a breakthrough in certifying Russian aircraft for the American market. Subsequent certification for the Ilyushin Il-96T wide-bodied jet was displayed at the show.

2001
Boeing introduced scale models of their Sonic Cruiser which would reach speeds approaching Mach 0.98, together with a walk-through hologram. The Airbus A380, seating 555, offered size rather than speed, and was there on the tarmac. Crowds toured the restored Antonov An-225 Dream, the world's largest aircraft. Dassault featured a model of the new FNX Falcon business jet that is projected to fly 10,500 km at Mach 0.88. The Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), which is undergoing STOVL testing, is a likely replacement for older American F-15E Strike Eagles and F-117 Nighthawks.

2003
The Concorde F-BTSD made its farewell landing at Le Bourget on June 14, the opening day, and the Dassault's Mirage 2000 and Rafale put on a show overhead. Pilotless planes, such as the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk and General Atomics Predator drew attention. Boeing publicized the 7E7 Dreamliner.

2005
FlightGlobal cited the Airbus A380 and "nineteen remarkable first appearances," including Dassault's Falcon 7X and Gulfstream's G550 business jets, Embraer's EMB-195 regional jet, and the second prototype of Alenia Aermacchi's M-346 advanced jet trainer. CompositesWorld added the Boeing 777-200LR and the Dassault UCAV Neuron.

2007
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner sold briskly, as did the Airbus A380 and A350 XWB. A mockup of the Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter, was on display. The IAI Heron TP UAV is ready to enter production. The Spanish steer-by-leaning AN-1 AeroQuad flying platform from Aeris Naviter weighed only 100 kilograms.

Notable alumni

 * Mumia Abu-Jamal – political prisoner, activist, journalist
 * Fred Carter – NBA shooting guard (1969-77)
 * John Chaney – Temple University Head Basketball Coach (1982-2006); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (2001); connection with BFHS tenuous or unlikely.
 * Paul Graham – NBA shooting guard (1991-94)
 * Bryant Jennings contended for the World Heavyweight Championship on April 25, 2015, and has a lifetime record, through 2018, of 24-2.
 * George Nock – NFL running back (1969-72)
 * Jerome (Pooh) Richardson, Jr. – NBA point guard (1989-99)
 * Wendell Tucker – NFL flanker and wide receiver (1967-70)
 * J.T. Turner – NFL right guard (1977-84)
 * Alex Wesby – Temple University guard; Euro pro player
 * Walter E. Williams – economist
 * Randy Woods – NBA point guard (1992-96)

Numerous professional athletes attended Franklin. George Nock, Wendell Tucker, and J. T. Turner played for the National Football League, and Fred Carter, Paul Graham, Pooh Richardson, and Randy Woods played for the National Basketball Association. Bryant Jennings is a heavyweight championship boxer.