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Died. Harry Wright Rogers, 36, pioneer pilot, oldtime airline operator; of a jugular gash received in his first serious crash in 17 years of spectacular flying: near the Glenn Curtiss Airport (of which he was operations manager), Long Island. Died. Mrs. Winifred Finlay Fosdick, wife of Lawyer Raymond Elaine Fosdick; by her own hand (pistol), after shooting her children, Susan, 15, and Raymond Elaine Jr., 10, to death in their sleep; in Montclair, N. J. Reason: homicidal mania growing out of a progressive form of paranoia for which she had been under treatment for several years. Brother of Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Apr. 11, 1932 | 4/11/1932 | See Source »

HARVARD YALE Baldwin, l.w. r.w., Bostwick Wood, c. c., Fletcher Cunningham, r.w. l.w., Todd Crosby, l.d. r.d., Muhlfeld MacGregor, r.d. l.d., Winter deGive, g. g., Curtiss...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STICKMEN TRAVEL TO NEW HAVEN FOR FINALE OF SERIES | 3/9/1932 | See Source »

Yale is favored by the presence of its expert net-guardian, Curtiss, whose non-chalent impenetrability last Saturday night almost completely check-mated Harvard's most desperate cannonades. A vital factor in the Eli campaign is the availability of Iglehart, brilliant defenseman and goal-getter. Sinus trouble prevented his taking part in the second game and it is extremely dubious whether recovery will be prompt enough to insure a reappearance. Coach Stubbs of Harvard, on the other hand, has his team at full strength...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STICKMEN TRAVEL TO NEW HAVEN FOR FINALE OF SERIES | 3/9/1932 | See Source »

Despite the belief that a win is far from improbable, Yale is nothing like overconfident. Her best hopes lie in the renewal of team play and the work of goalers Beard and Curtiss. Special care will be taken to incur fewer penalties which have left the New Haven defenses vulnerable in several of the last games...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Neither Crimson Nor Blue Are Over-confident On Day Of Initial Hockey Contest | 2/27/1932 | See Source »

...years ago Major James Harold ("Jimmy") Doolittle led a team of airmen through Europe with U. S. Curtiss-built military planes. At Sofia, Belgrade, Bucharest, Istanbul, Prague, Berlin, etc. they made demonstration nights, talked serious business with chiefs of state, army leaders, ministers of transportation. Last week Curtiss-Wright Corp. announced one of the fruits of Salesman Doolittle's roadwork: a contract with the Turkish Government to survey and direct the building of airways and airports, build and operate factories for construction of Curtiss-Wright planes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Sold by Doolittle | 2/22/1932 | See Source »

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