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...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 crashed at Gwelo, Southern Rhodesia. This left two planes in the air, one a big, twin-motored Envoy flown by Pilot Max Findlay with...
Invented and made by one-time Dartmouth professor F. E. Thayer (who works in a shop so small out photographer had to take pictures of the houses on Mr. Thayer's lawn), ant houses are made in all designs from submarines to coal mines, a few, of which are shown here...
Levin of Jamaica, N. Y., defend his dubious right to it against an enraged Mexican named Vincent Lopez, Pacific Coast claim ant. When each had won one fall, Wrestler Lopez charged the referee, had to be restrained by his handlers. Wrestler Levin won the third fall six minutes later...
Married- Mrs. Cora Lillian Bennett, widow of famed Aviator Floyd Bennett; ant Arthur Hoffman, Manhattan music copyright investigator; in Brooklyn...
...Gushing successively served from the early spring of 1915 until after the Armistice. They include diaries of his experiences with the Harvard Unit of the American Ambulance at Neuilly, France; with the Base Hospital Unit which he organized in Boston and carried to France; and as "senior consult ant in neurosurgery" for the American Expeditionary Forces. They tell of his interest in gunshot wounds of the head (''g.s.w. skull"), a military accident with which he as a brain surgeon was particularly concerned. Eight brain opera tions a day was his goal...