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...Ingalls was that unit's bright particular flower. Over seas Mr. Ingalls was attached to an English squadron over which he, still in his 'teens, was soon given command. In two months duty in the Dunkirk sector he brought down six German planes and a balloon. He was the only U.S. naval flyer to become an ace, that is, to bring down five or more planes. Returned from the War, Ace Ingalls received the U.S. Distinguished Service Medal and the British Flying Cross. He returned to Yale to finish his college course, later was graduated from the Harvard...
Died. Walter Scherz, trans-Atlantic helmsman of the dirigibles Los Angeles (1924) and Graf Zeppelin (1928); of balloon gas poisoning; in Friederichshafen, Germany...
...Hahn Lawyer, stalwart S. Lawrence Miller, grinned. "In short," he suggested, "she has a face like a mask and the rest of her is like a balloon...
Back to Sir Joseph came favorable reports by "expertizers" of the two paintings. Said they of the Lardoux portrait: "Soggy and bulgy ... it resembles in portions a child's balloon . . . mouth too luscious . . . angularity of the 18th century is here translated into the suavity of the late 18th...
Yachting, polo, horse-racing and balloon-racing were boomed by Bennett. Many a Bennett Cup still stands. He was Commodore of the New York Yacht Club for three terms and sailed five races across the Atlantic...