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While their leader floated overhead in a red autogiro, 5,000 black & white followers of Negro Cultist Major J. "Father" Divine (TIME, Dec. 25) marched and countermarched across Manhattan's sunny Harlem on their way to Easter worship. At the head of the procession a small girl carried a placard on which was a picture of Divine and the words: HE IS GOD ALMIGHTY. A banner tied to Divine's autogiro answered in red letters: PEACE TO THE WORLD-FATHER DIVINE'S MISSION. Truck-mounted hands moved slowly forward, playing jazz. The marchers sang...
...four new 'chutes. Following the races he attended a party at the South Bend, Ind. home of Vincent Bendix (automobile and airplane parts). Another guest, Charles T. Otto, offered to fly him and a girl friend back across Lake Michigan's tip to Chicago in an autogiro. The 'giro never reached shore...
...Louis to Chicago, did a topsy-turvy climbing bank and "dead stick'' dive. Major Ernst Udet, famed German War ace, sent his Flamingo teetering crazily across the field, on the third try neatly snatched a handkerchief off the ground with a wing tip. Johnny Miller looped an autogiro...
First Hop. Thousands of cautious lowans enjoyed their first air plane hop in The Register and Tribune autogiro, because it struck them as an airplane they could rely upon, precisely as they rely upon The Register and Tribune. It was sound psychology, a natural association of ideas...
Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, N.J.) Juan de la Cierva, Autogiro inventor ... D.E. President Harold F. Pitcairn of Autogiro Co. of America .... D.M.E. Alan Hazeltine, radio neutrodyne inventor .... Sc.D...