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Nathaniel G. Benchley was named chairman of the Senior Class Nominating Committee last night. Other members are J. Sinclair Armstrong, Lyman B. Burbank, Joseph Franklin, Elliot B. Knowlton, George F. Lowman, and Robert T. Whitman...
Benchley is chairman of the Dunster House Committee and former president of the Lampoon, Armstrong is from Leverett House and former editorial chairman of the CRIMSON, Burbank is athletic secretary of Winthrop House, Franklin is chairman of the Dudley House Committee, Knowlton is chairman of the Lowell House Committee, Lowman is a member of the Kirkland House Committee and a letterman in basketball and tennis, and Whitman is former head manager of football...
Human Element, Captain Harry George Armstrong, M. D., is in charge of the Army Air Corps' physiological laboratory at Dayton, Ohio. After four years of research on military and commercial pilots, Captain Armstrong reported last week that too much has been expected of the human element in aviation. "A pilot begins his career," he said, "in good physical condition, with an exceptionally stable mental and emotional system. Yet, in one study, 11% of all pilots and 50% of all those who had reached the age of 30 were suffering some form of functional neurosis or nervous breakdown. And physical...
...high altitudes oxygen deficiency is dangerous not only for physiological but for psychological reasons. Chronic effects of oxygen-want appear only in pilots, are never seen in casual passengers. "The point at which oxygen-want should be relieved in the pilot," declared Captain Armstrong, "is the subject of heated controversy. The average pilot thinks it is smart to go to a high altitude without oxygen. Oxygen-want is like alcohol. The worse off one is, the better he feels. It is regrettable that oxygen-want is not an extremely painful process...
Hollywoods swing to swing is again evidenced here, for Louis Armstrong is hitting high C and higher in a better government crusade backed by Peaches O'Day (Miss West), with Edmund Lowe as the mayoral candidate George Rector appears in films for the first time as host in his own famous restaurant...