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Died. Colonel Edward Alfred Simmons, 56. publisher & rail expert; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Brooklyn. X. Y. He was president of Simmons-Boardman Publishing Corp. (Railway Age, Airway Age, Boiler Maker) and of American Saw Works, and board chairman of American Machine Tool...
Died. James Walter Spalding, 75, co-founder in 1876 with his brother, the late Albert G. Spalding, then a famed baseball pitcher, of the sporting goods firm of A. G. Spalding & Bros.; its board chairman and onetime president; father of Violinist Albert Spalding and Vice President H. Boardman Spalding of the Spalding company; of heart disease; at Monmouth Beach, N. J. For 30 years he spent his winters in Florence, Italy, where he guaranteed the symphony orchestra. Last year he was awarded the cross of St. Maurice & St. Lazarus by the Italian Government. In 1905 he lost his left...
...death had been almost a miracle. Nevertheless they prevailed upon their backer, Perfumer Francois Coty, to give them another plane just like the wrecked one for a second try at a Paris-Tokyo nonstop flight. Such a flight, 6,032-mi., would retrieve for France the distance record which Boardman & Polando had just wrested away by flying 5.011 mi. from New York to Istanbul...
...York-Istanbul Big-framed Russell N. Boardman, onetime cowboy, motorcyclist and wingwalker, and small John L. Polando, onetime garage mechanic, pulled the Bellanca monoplane Cape Cod up from Floyd Bennett Field, New York, and struck the well-travelled Great Circle Course to Europe. For two nights and a day the plane was unsighted from land or sea, even when it dropped a copy of the New York Times upon Le Bourget Field. It landed at Istanbul's Yeshilkeuy Airdrome, 5,011 mi. and 49 hr. from the takeoff. For their superb piloting and navigation, for being the first eastward...
Professor R. B. Dixon, of the Department of Anthropology will be on leave during the first half year, as will A. G. McAdie '84, Abbott Lawrence Rotch Professor of Meteorology and director of the Blue Hill Observatory, and A. K. Porter, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts. During the second half year, G. P. Baxter '96, Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry, W. F. Dearborn, professor of Education, director of the Psycho-Educational Clinic, and Acting Dean of the Graduate School of Education, and Kirsopp Lake, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History will be absent, as will F. B. Magoun...