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...almost continual collapse. Abraham Lincoln is master of ceremonies in a scene on the banks of the Potomac in 1865 which features a uniformed tenor singing "There's Moonlight in a Kiss" to a girl in crinoline. When President McKinley manifests an interest in Hawaiian music, one Bert Lynn favors with some plaintive strumming on his patented device known as the Vibrolynn...
Long before anyone ever heard of Lindbergh, Chamberlin, Post or Earhart, one of aviation's big names was Bert Acosta. Famed as a ''natural" among pilots, he probably had a greater talent for flying than any man before or since. But like many another early barnstormer and stunter, he took to the fleshpots on earth as an offset to his work in the air. His life, consequently, became a rowdy romance in which brawls, jails and domestic entanglements were due to play a large part...
...Bertrand Blanchard ("Bert") Acosta was chief pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight. According to legend, Byrd had to hit him over the head with a fire extinguisher when he got out of hand during the flight. Drink had by that time made him a "physical wreck," according to no less an authority than Anthony H. G. ("Tony") Fokker. Acosta's reply was that "Tony Fokker can go to hell...
Born in San Diego, Calif, of an old Castilian family, Bert Acosta was a professional automobile racer at 13. In 1910, aged 15, he learned to fly in a ship he built himself as a copy of a Curtiss "pusher." Year later he began working for Glenn Curtiss, went to Canada in 1914 to teach Royal Air Force students to fly. Afterward he taught U. S. Army pilots, became a captain in the Wartime Air Service, returned to Curtiss after the Armistice...
Last week, after being "grounded" nearly seven years, Bert Acosta was back in the air. The Department of Commerce, convinced of his reformation, finally lifted its ban, granted him a "learner's permit." After five hours solo, the best living pilot was scheduled this week to take his flight test for a transport license. Said Alford J. ("Al") Williams, famed onetime Navy stunt pilot: "Aviation needs Acosta badly. Seeing him take a ship off the ground is the best eye tonic I've had in years...