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...Coach Walsh will have to spend most of his time trying to figure out just who will fill the gaps in the tackle positions. All three of Harvard's first-string tackles went out by the graduation route and the coaches are waiting eagerly to see if Graham (Blimp) Springs formerly of the Class of 1935 will return to college. He was out of Harvard last year but Jayvee Coach Jimmy Knox thinks that he will come back. Blimp is said to be the greatest tackle prospect that over appeared on the Crimson horizon...
...second subject of inquiry by the Naval Court was the crash of the little Navy blimp J3, which used to nestle under the great ventral fin of the Akron, in the Lakehurst dock, like an egg about to be hatched. The J-3 was sent out into dirty weather with a crew of seven in her open gondola, on the report that Akron survivors had been sighted clinging to bits of wreckage off Barnegat. Thrashed by the gale, she was forced to drop into the pounding surf whence a small amphibian of the New York Police picked two officers, three...
...dark, dome-browed man who worked five years for Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. and who has been inventing things for 18 years. When he managed a chain of clothing stores he got the idea for the pants-presser. While working for Goodyear, he says, he actually landed a blimp by means of a harpoon-anchor like the one which he depicts in his cartoon series. Two of his inventions are now in production: a coathanger with attached compartment to hold mothballs or perfume; a truck tailgate which lowers to receive freight, elevates it to the truck's level. Another Gross...
...others-nothing, except two dead bodies, as yet unidentified. Search was continued for hours, but without hope of finding another man alive. (In course of the search the Navy blimp J-3 crashed into the ocean off the New Jersey coast. Of her crew of seven, Lieut.-Commander David E. Cummins and two others were killed.) Down with the Akron evidently, had gone the 71; among them Lieut. Robert W. Larson, the airplane pilot who only last month flew from the Akron to shore in the Canal Zone to visit his wife; among them Lieut. Wilfred Bushnell, co-winner...
...Then he moved on to heavier-than-air machines. He never hesitated to risk his life on any of his contraptions, crashed all over France with impunity until 1909 when he was badly hurt, decided he had played out his luck. A pre-WTar Paris sight was his baby blimp moored to the balcony of his house whence he stepped into its tiny gondola, sailed down the street. Long a resident of France and a Francophile, he was accused during the War of espionage by the French Government which later apologized and decorated him for Wartime air work...