Word: aviatrix
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Claire Luce, dancer (Follies, No Foolin'), aviatrix; and Clifford Warren Smith, stepson of President Newcomb Carlton of the Western Union Telegraph Co.; in Manhattan...
Many a sportsman has his pilot's license, his private plane. But not until last week could he look forward to the prospect of a day at his flying country club. Miss Ruth Rowland Nichols, Junior Leaguer of Rye, N. Y., enthusiastic amateur aviatrix with a non-stop flight from New York to Miami to her credit, shouldered the task of promoting three clubs in New York and New Jersey, forerunners of a nation-wide chain of private and exclusive country clubs devoted to aeronautical sports. Associated with Promoter Nichols are such younger capitalists as William A. Rockefeller, William...
...baby referred to is Paulina Longworth, born February 14, 1925. C. Under the name of Ruth Elder, famed aviatrix, the following was syndicated last week in U. S. newspapers-part of a description of a White House luncheon: "The event was jolly. I noticed President Coolidge ate very little and I won one of his rare smiles when I said: 'Why, Mr. President, you eat just like a canary...
...emotional experience can be serene. Into this idyllic union of feminine wealth and feminine daring came the disturbing arm of the law. Fraulein Rasche's former backers, suddenly emerging from anonymity, frankly revealed themselves as Harold W. Hartwell and the Hollis Corporation. They disclosed a contract with the aviatrix, obtained an injunction preventing her from flying away in the Stillman sky-blue Bellanca...
Backer Hartwell observed tersely: that he had made an extended search for a substitute aviatrix to fly the green and red Bellanca, but in vain; that he expected half of the Rasche publicity profits and a position as her manager; that he would not release her unless "any act of moral turpitude should injure her reputation...