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...backfire, the ungainly Vickers Virginia X bomber wallowed heavily 2,000 ft. over Surrey. While Pilot Gully fought to right the ship, four members of the crew crawled obediently back to the tail, bailed out one by one, jerked their parachute rip cords, floated peacefully earthwards. All but Aircraftsman Lewis (who broke his leg) landed safely. Flying Officer Page, the assistant pilot, stood by until the crippled bomber sank to 200 ft., then went overside. His parachute opened, but failed to check his plunge to death...
Mark's In-the-Bouwerie in similar fashion, concluded that the vault-batterers had intended to hold a Vanderbilt body for ransom. Col. Thomas Edward Lawrence (alias Aircraftsman Shaw), soldier of fortune and author (The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Revolt in the Desert), was dis covered to be translating Homer's Odyssey into English verse. Augusta, Ga. is booming its winter-resort possibilities. A committee was formed to co-ordinate all sports (golf, polo, tennis, horse shows, race meets, baseball). The chairman: Tyrus Raymond ("Ty") Cobb, oldtime American League baseballer (Detroit...
Died. Chance Milton Vought, 42, pioneer aircraftsman, designer of the first planes used with catapults, builder of Vought Corsairs in common use by U. S. Navy, president of Chance Vought Corp. and vice president of United Aircraft & Transport Corp.; of bloodpoisoning after a tooth extraction; at Southampton...
...Escape. Nervous Britons who frown upon the hardy diversions of their Prince of Wales were chilled last week by the crash of a Royal Air Force plane which had just carried the Prince from Khartum to Cairo, on his way home from South Africa. A flying officer and an aircraftsman (pilot and copilot) were killed. Shocked, Edward of Wales was not unnerved. Well aware of the flying tradition that prescribes the "army cure"* he announced he was impatient to get home and wanted his personal pilot to pick him up at Marseilles. British airmen applauded. Pilot and an escort were...