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...very immediate and practical interest to members of the graduating class is the privilege of conferences with Mr. F. H. Curtiss and Mr. A. M. White. The first beginnings in business will assuredly be less a leap in the dark when explained with that kindness and consideration which has prompted these Harvard men to "teach the ropes" to their possible successors...
...venture is underwritten by a committee, headed by George Gordon Battle, including E. F. Albee, Clement M. Biddle, Joseph P. Day, Haley Fiske, W. A. Harriman, Arthur Curtiss James, Robert Underwood Johnson, Elmore Leffingwell, Franklin Simon, Addison Van Tine, Frank D. Waterman, Mrs. Gertrude Atherton, Mrs. A. C. Bedford, Mrs. John O. Cosgrave, Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske, Mrs. David F. Houston, Mrs. Arthur Curtiss James, Mrs. Medill McCormick, Mrs. Charles L. Tiffany, Jane Cowl and Evangeline Booth...
Lieutenant A. J. ("Al") Williams, formerly pitcher for the New York Giants, won the Pulitzer Race (at St. Louis) in a Curtiss-Navy racer at an average speed of 243.67 miles per hour over the triangular course of 200 miles. Lt. H. J. Brow in a similar machine averaged 241.78 and Lt. L. H. Sanderson of the Marine Corps flying a Navy-Wright plane of 750 horsepower was third with a speed of 230 miles per hour. Of the seven picked entries, the three Navy pilots won the first three places. Not a casualty or even a broken wire marked...
...four machines finally starting, the Curtiss-Navy racer came in first, with Lieut. David Kittenhouse, U. S. N., piloting magnificently over the course of 186 miles at an average speed of 177.4 miles per hour. The winning airplane was built in 1921 as a land plane and carried off the Pulitzer cup in that year. With floats added and a more powerful motor, it brought more glory to its builders and to American aviation. The victory insures the holding of the contest next year in the U. S., with Long Island Sound as the most probable site...
...Curtiss ship is a tiny plane, streamlined to the last degree, with an engine which weighs less than 700 pounds, yet turns up 475 horsepower. The racer represents the last word in airplane design and embodies a wonderful wing, curved on the under as well as on the upper side, so as to offer the very least possible resistance to speed...