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...Moines building was made mouse-proof throughout. On its roof Henry Wallace plays badminton with Managing Editor Donald Murphy. In Washington he walks three miles to his office before 8 a. m., lunches at his desk, goes home after 6 p. m. Summers he climbs Pikes Peak in a bee line...
...Brothers Granville had rebuilt so many crashes they were ready to build planes of their own. Zantford Granville was the designer, the four younger brothers craftsmen, mechanics. Their first product, the Gee-Bee Sportster, won the favor of Maude Tait Moriarity, woman racing pilot. She persuaded her father, James C. Tait, rich ice cream maker of Springfield, Mass., to back the Granvilles with a factory in Springfield...
...Granvilles built & sold 25 ships in four years. The collapse of the private plane market left scant demand for sport ships like theirs, but also left plenty of time for experiments with racing designs. With his smart Chief Engineer Robert L. Hall (since resigned) Granville produced the Gee-Bee Super Sportster in which the late Lowell Bayles broke the U. S. land plane speed record at the National Air Races in 1931. It was in a new Gee-Bee that famed "Jimmy'' Doolittle broke that record and made a new world record (296 m.p.h.) in last year...
That latest ship accounts for Granville's new importance, and answers an often-heard question: "What good are air races?" The latest Gee-Bee is of radical design, a fat bumblebee of a plane with small wings and an enormous tail. Wags dubbed it "the flying silo." Last week Zantford Granville began construction of a barrel-shaped transport ship patterned directly after the racer. Its wing is larger but its fuselage is barrel-shaped, its tail big, its nose fat to hold a 700-h.p. Cyclone. With pilot & seven passengers it is supposed to cruise 197 m.p.h...
...Engineers' Club was organized in 1917. The Amateur Championship that was played there in 1920 contained three historic matches: the one in which Chick Evans beat Reginald Lewis in 41 holes; the one in which Francis Ouimet beat young Bobby Jones, who was pursued by an angry bee; the final in which Evans beat Ouimet, 7 & 6. Whether the course- one of the best in the U. S.. with a particularly terrifying one-shot hole. No. 14 -would be sold for building lots, reorganized or taken over by one of many neighboring clubs had not been decided last...