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...84th birthday was slim, birdlike Annie Smith Peck, who closed her mountain-climbing career two years ago by tramping up Mount Madison. It was to signalize the most famed of Miss Peck's exploits that the Peruvian Government in 1908 named the northern peak of Mount Huascaran Cumbre Ana Peck. Miss Peck scaled Cumbre Ana Peck on the sixth attempt but her Swiss guide lost his own mittens and one of hers because "the fool, he didn't put his foot on them...
Glenn Martin was fiddling with bicycles at home in Santa Ana, Calif, in 1903 when the Wright brothers made historic news at Kitty Hawk. By 1907 he was able to build himself a glider and a year later he was the third man in the world to fly a heavier-than-air craft of his own devising. To laymen the name of Glenn L. Martin has today receded into the dim anonymity of military aviation, but in his youth Glenn Martin was his own able pressagent. He barnstormed with a lady parachute jumper who perched in pink tights...
...back-country stronghold on the Rio Coco last week, killed eight Sandinistas, captured six and a quantity of precious ammunition. Meanwhile a Col. Camilo Gonzalez, formerly of Nicaragua's National Guard, was landed last week at Manhattan's Ellis Island from the S. S. Santa Ana. A Costa Rican newshawk had somehow gotten and published a story that Gonzalez had bragged of killing Sandino on ''direct written orders from General Somoza...
...that popular comedy, "The Vinegar Tree" that it is line with the recently surging public demand for film invoicing country houses with a great deal of white wainscote and Alice Brads. Unlike its predecessors in the field it is not graced by the presence of Myrna Loy and Ana Harding; this even if you like the acting of that pair, is a fortunate thing, lending variety...
...name of Glenn L. Martin is one of the oldest currently famed in U. S. aviation, and one of the least popular. When the Wright brothers were doing mysterious things in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, Glenn Martin, 17, was tinkering bicycles at his parents' home in Santa Ana, Calif. Four years later he built a glider: a year later, a crude 22-h.p. pusher airplane which got off the ground. Thereby he became the third man in the world to fly a heavier-than-air craft of his own invention. To get funds for further experimentation Glenn Martin became...