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...doughty henchman for industry. In the midst of rumors, General Johnson was recalled to the White House, closeted with the President for an hour. Coming out he met Mr. Richberg going in. He slapped his friend on the back and took him aside for a talk in whispers. Afterward the General bantered with newshawks: "We have had only a slight misunderstanding as to the timing of the new plan. . . . I'm going off for a vacation of two weeks and then I'm going up to Hyde Park and talk over the final reorganization. . . . That's all there...
Last year in the final of the U. S. Singles at Forest Hills, Perry met Jack Crawford who held the Australian, French and All-England titles and was expected to add the U. S. title. When Crawford lost that match and when Ellsworth Vines turned professional shortly afterward, Perry became indisputably the best amateur tennist in the world. Since then he has beaten Crawford five times. After defeating him in the Wimbledon final this year, he put the finishing touches on his record by beating both Sidney Wood and Frank Shields in the singles match of the Davis Cup challenge...
Success came in 1912 when his seventh plane won the Petrograd Military Competition prize of 30,000 rubles. Shortly afterward a fuel-line, clogged by a dead mosquito, nearly cost Sikorsky his life in a forced landing. In 1913 (aged 24) he built and flew the world's first successful multi-motored airplane. His next model, a 4-engined monster which lifted twelve tons, made him famed as the "beardless father of Russian aviation." honored by Tsar and nation. During the War his huge Sikorsky bombers had a reputation for coming back. Of the 73 completed, only...
...fourth day he honored the Navy as he had honored the Army the day before, touring Pearl Harbor Naval Base, lunching with Rear Admiral Harry E. Yarnell. Afterward he took time off for his one private engagement, tea with Mr. and Mrs. Walter F. Dillingham. Good Harvard man is Mr. Dillingham. whose Brother Harold is a classmate of Franklin Roosevelt's (1904). But in Hawaii the Dillinghams are better known as the island's railroad tycoons. That night the President took dinner quietly in his hotel with a few guests, including Will Rogers. At 9 p.m., still smiling...
Before the game, at luncheon and afterward at dinner Ambassador Bullitt played host to the two potent Red Commissars and three high-ranking Red Army officers, on a footing of hearty intimacy such as no bourgeois Ambassador has ever achieved in Moscow...