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After graduating from Harvard with a magnacum laude degree in music, Levin was hired bythe late pianist Rudolph Serkin to head the musictheory department of the Curtiss Institute ofPhiladelphia. He left the Institute to take aposition as professor of music theory and chambermusic at the State University of New York (SUNY)at Purchase...
...last week in Hempstead, N.Y., to mark the 50th anniversary of the nearby Cradle of Aviation Museum, the chipper Corrigan, now 80, accepted an altimeter symbolizing his famous flight. The young airplane mechanic took off from Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, heading for California in his rickety Curtiss monoplane. With nothing guiding him save his taste for adventure and his temperamental compass, Corrigan landed some 28 hours later in what he thought was Los Angeles. "I've just flown from New York," he called out as he hopped from the plane. "By the way, where...
...Paris-to-New York transatlantic flight; in Paris. In 1930 Bellonte and Pilot Dieu-donne Costes reversed Charles Lindbergh's 1927 course in their crimson Bre-guet sesquiplane Question Mark. Taking off from Le Bourget airfield, they landed 37 hr. 18 min. and 3,600 miles later at Curtiss Field in Valley Stream...
...middle-aged prospective dealers who were thinking of setting up commercial game centers on their own land. Wayne Hockmeyer, 43, who runs a river-rafting business on the Kennebec, had come from Maine. Jerry Campbell, 36, a fur trapper, had driven in with a friend from Perth, Ont. Robert Curtiss, 39, who works in real estate for a subsidiary of AT&T, came from Cranford, N.J., despite a protest from his horrified boss...
...remark reflected the widely held misconception that one of the nation's bestselling candy bars, the Baby Ruth, was named for legendary Yankee Star Babe Ruth. In fact, it was named for President Grover Cleveland's daughter Ruth. Even so, Reggie got his wish. Curtiss, which also makes the Baby Ruth, in 1977 decided to create a new candy bar of chocolate, caramel and peanuts in a bright orange wrapper. Its name: Reggie! The Reggie! bar, though, never became a high-volume contender at candy counters outside New York, and Curtiss is now retiring Reggie! from its lineup...