Word: ace
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presently dropped out because of minor troubles, one at Regensburg, Germany, one at Belgrade, one at Salonika, Greece. At Cairo, Flight Lieut. Tommy Rose, holder of the England-South Africa record, smashed his landing gear, withdrew. With five planes left in the race, Capt. Stanley Halse, South African War ace took the lead. Apparently sure of victory, he ran into veldt fires, lost his way, cracked up with a dislocated arm on an ant-hill in Southern Rhodesia. A similar mishap overtook another entrant at Mpulungu near Lake Tanganyika, while a third was grounded at Khartoum with piston trouble, later...
Captain Hayden Channing '37 is ace. Behind the man who generally finished just after Harvard's great harrier, Robert S. Playfair '36, are lined up on paper a squad of eight capable runners, including among others George P. Coach Jaakko Mikkola's only returning Gardner, Jr. '39, who captained last year's Freshman team...
...triangle, it is the only rival in popularity to the Bendix Race, which it last week paralleled in results almost completely. With the best U. S. pilots out because of their accidents in the Bendix, the Thompson was left to a parcel of minor U. S. racers, one foreign ace-France's huge, 31-year-old Michel Detroyat. Close friend of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, whom he was instrumental in rescuing from Le Bourget crowds after the New York-Paris flight in 1927, Detroyat is France's best stunt flyer, has twice almost killed himself in crashes. Last...
Newport's pious Mrs. Aymar Johnson, wife of a Manhattan broker, daughter of a Manhattan realtor, granddaughter of two Episcopal ministers, had worked mightily preparing the way for the Oxford Groupers. By the time they reached the resort, Mrs. Lawrence Lewis Gillespie, whose daughter Eileen came within an ace of marrying John Jacob Astor III, had arranged a large reception for them. The godmother of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Mrs. Henry Parish, put up one team member. The wife of the head of the Allerton Hotels system, Mrs. James Stewart Cushman, vice president of the World...
...three grandsons and three great-grandsons of Founder Henry Engelhard Steinway. Among the Steinways shown this year was its new $885 model, designed to do for the company what the medium-priced Packard 120 has done for Packard motor. Last week in Chicago, Steinway's ace front man, baldish Roman de Majewski, suavely entertained buyers with the champagne that Steinway always serves. Disdaining most of the convention's activity, President Theodore E. Steinway failed to show up for the final banquet...