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...bicycles, motorcycles and airplanes before turning to automobiles in 1910. Driving his famed "Bluebird" over the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in 1935, he was the first to crack the five-mile-a-minute mark (he hit 301.1292 m.p.h.*); he switched to speedboats, and four years later, on Lake. Coniston, England, established a record 141.74 m.p.h., which has never been equaled...
...Malcolm Campbell, 54, Britain's famed speedboat racer (141.74 miles per hour on Lake Coniston, England) and holder of the world's automobile speed record when it was 301 m.p.h. (present record: 368.85), who organized a motorcycle militia unit of 162 men last March, reported for service at Britain's War Office on a motorcycle...
...Malcolm Campbell and his new motorboat Bluebird II: a race against a watch; covering a measured mile in 25.2 sec. in one direction and 25.6 in the opposite direction, for an average speed of 141.74 m.p.h., setting a new world's record for speed on water; at Lake Coniston, England...
...author of "The Celebrity," "The Crisis," "Richard Carvel," "The Crossing," "Coniston," "A Modern Chronicle," and "The Inside of the Cup," Mr. Churchill is well remembered. In 1894 he graduated from the United States Naval Academy, and in 1903 he received the honorary degree of A.M. from Annapolis. Mr. Churchill has been active in public services and is one of New Hampshire's best known citizens. In 1903 and 1905 he was a member of the New Hampshire legislature and served actively on committees. At the time of the state election in 1912 Mr. Churchill was candidate for governor...
...Union and Century Clubs of New York, of the Union and the Tennis and Racquet Clubs of Boston, and of the University Club of St. Louis. He has attained much prominence as a writer by the following books: "The Celebrity," "Richard Carvel," "The Crisis," "The Crossing," and "Coniston...