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Into the study of Thomas Alva Edison at Llewellyn Park, N. J. last week walked Lieut. Richard T. Aldworth, U. S. A. retired, tall, solemn, redheaded director of Newark Airport. Three hours later he departed with fingers cramped from scribbling 25 pages of answers to the deaf inventor's questions; also with the knowledge that Inventor Edison proposes to attack the problem of flying in dirty weather. As preface to the interview Inventor Edison, who had summoned Lieut. Aldworth, piloted him across the room, read aloud to him the words on a brass plaque hanging on the wall: "There...
Last week the first conclusions of several investigations were made public. In a 70-page report Manager Richard Aldworth of Newark Airport stated (in brief): All engines (Wrights) functioned normally on previous flights and on this takeoff. One engine failed shortly after the takeoff. Another may have failed later. The pilot was convinced that his plane was overloaded, ? He was not sufficiently familiar with the area in the immediate vicinity of the neighborhood. He paid insufficient attention to the direction and velocity of the wind. From the first period after the engine failure, he probably had decided...
...Manager Aldworth's mind, the man more than the machine was the cause of the casualties. Newark police have charged Pilot Lou Foote with manslaughter...
...Such lines as "Naught my sweetheart from me shall sunder," "Thou'dst best beware," "I know not what I'm saying or what I'm doing" were hackneyed when Alfred Lord Tennyson was a litle boy in Lincolnshire and completely outmoded long before he was an old man in Aldworth. Such archaisms as "dight," "say him nay," "fain," such clicheés as "balmy breezes," "surly portals" are all shoddy stuff. They are no easier to sing than good English. Yet the fault was not Translator Meltzer's, for the general run of librettos are concocted out of just such snips...
...Reginald Aldworth Daly, A.M. '93, Ph.D. '96, Sturgis-Hooper Professor of Geology at the University, has been granted leave of absence by the University for the remaining half-year, and will soon leave for Y. M. C. A. work in France. He expects to return to the University in September...