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...Curtiss, Chairman, Miss Harriet Hayward; H. R. Wood, Miss Jane Richards; Henry Ware, Miss Isabelle Lothrop; W. E. Soule, Miss Elizabeth Pullman; K. B. Harding, Miss Dorothea Cheney; J. W. Hurlbut, Miss Marion DeLay; Howard Slade, 2nd, Miss Anne Tudor...
Lieut. James ("Lucky Jimmy ) Doolittle performed a similar revolution in his 420-horsepower Curtiss biplane last week, when he completed the first "outside loop in aviation history. Two flyers had attempted this stunt in 1912 and were killed. Lieutenant Doolittle began his loop above Dayton, Ohio, at an altitude of 8,000 feet, flying at 150 miles per hour. His great dangers were the collapse of his plane or the breaking of straps which held him in the cockpit, at the bottom of the loop. Even though his plane held together Lieutenant Doolittle came out of the loop with bloodshot...
...Squantum or by taking private instruction. They are: R. W. Ayer '28, Brutus Brooks ocC., W. N. Bump '28, M. N. Fairbank '28, R. E. Gregg '28, and F. P. Sprout '28. Ayer, Bump and Gregg expect to go to Squantum; Brooks and Fairbank will take instructions at Curtiss Field, Kong Island; and Sproul expects to fly from the East Boston Airport...
...commerce. Down through the close of the century and on into the present decade roars the industry, and the latest exploits we hear of in connection with it are the affairs of the Van Sweringen brothers and their Nickel Plate Railway, and the remarkable way in which Commodore Arthur Curtiss James accumulated for himself such a tremendous control of the major roads of the country...
...Arthur Curtiss James. (He sails yachts, gives money...