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Dates: during 1930-1939
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March 20-22-Third annual La Gorce Open; at Miami Beach...
Originally one of vaudeville's "Willson Sisters," Mrs. Millicent Willson Hearst, mother of five sons, sumptuous hostess, (Palm Beach, California, New York, the Continent), philanthropist, landlady of smart Manhattan apartments, dabbler in English magazines (Nash's), is the daughter of Comedian George Willson, clog dancer, once famed as "George Leslie" for his Negroid dance "Mule in the Sand." now opulently retired, addicted to the stovepipe...
...speed with weight (TIME, March 10). Last week Pilot Sergievsky, who like his employer, Igor Sikorsky, is a naturalized U. S. citizen, filled a Sikorsky seaplane with two long tons (4,409.24 Ib.) of "pay load" and climbed with it to a height of 19,500 feet over North Beach, Long Island. The old altitude record for two-ton seaplanes was 15,837 ft. The significance: the U. S. is catching up with Europe in development of high-climbing, load-carrying seaplanes, essential to coastal and intercontinental air transport (especially in South America...
March 15-Men's southeastern championship; at Palm Beach Tennis Club. Palm Beach...
...known to be more powerful. The Rolls-Royce engine was of the W-type, better known as Broad Arrow, a conventional British design used in the Napier engine to whoop Sir Henry O'Neil de Hane Segrave in his queer record-breaking motorcar over the sands at Daytona Beach at 231 m. p. h. last year...