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Married. Howard Earle Coffin, 63, industrialist (Southeastern Cottons, Inc., Sea Island Co., Hudson Motor Car Co., National Air Transport, Inc.), host to Presidents Coolidge and Hoover at his Georgia coast estate; to Gladys Baker, 39, Florida newspaper woman; her third husband; in Manhattan...
...tapered wings and bicycle landing gear which does not retract, they have little merit beyond big payloads. Instead of developing practical improvements, Russia's designers tend to go head-over-crupper for such fantastic devices as the P-5 biplanes whose fat lower wings open up to provide coffin-like niches in which 14 soldiers can snuggle. Most successful of Russia's planes are those she has bought abroad and adapted. In Spain, modern German and Italian ships have been outmaneuvered by Russians flying modified Boeings of a type long obsolete in the U. S. Russia has also...
...with a picture of sanctified George V riding in plus fours and gaiters on his favorite fat little pony Jock at Sandringham (see cut). Worried questions about Jock were among the last words King George ever spoke. It was Jock, with stirrups reversed, who followed his master's coffin from Sandringham House to the railway station. Sure to become one of the most popular of all Artist Munnings' color plates, the portrait of George & Jock was not Artist Munnings' only contribution to the Academy. There was one of his usual, impeccable race horse scenes, and almost identical...
...Fort Bragg. Calif., nobody believed that forehanded Abe Triplett was going to kill himself when he picked a spot under a big tree, permitted himself to be photographed digging his grave (see cut ). Nobody believed it when he went home, built himself a coffin. Two days later Fort Bragg found it was wrong...
...TRISTRAM COFFIN...