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Died. Clement M. Keys, 75, organizer and first president of Curtiss-Wright Corp. and longtime aviation financier; after long illness; in Manhattan. In the post-World War I slump he bought control of the old Glenn Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., by 1929 had 1) financed $80 million worth of aviation enterprises, 2) formed the Transcontinental Air Transport, forefather of T.W.A., with Charles A. Lindbergh as technician-executive, 3) helped finance the first trans-U.S. airmail and passenger services, 4) started the first passenger service in China...
Only a few stood in the chill Sunday sun as the pot-bellied Curtiss Commando began to roll along the east-west runway of Newark Airport. Aboard the crowded war-surplus craft: four crewmen, 52 passengers, bound for Tampa at nonscheduled Miami Airline's bargain rates ($39.74 for grownups, half fare for children). The heavily loaded Commando gathered speed, got her tail up. Black smoke plumed from her, and swirled in the propeller blast...
...Deacon's "B" basketball team made a clean sweep by beating Eliot House "B's" 37 to 23. Kirkland's Ed Curtiss and Steve Moore, high scorers with nine points each, kept the Deacons ahead...
Serving as associate judges will be Elliot L. Richardson LL.B. '44 and Charles P. Curtiss LL.B. '17, both of the Boston Bar. They will pick the winner of the trial between the J. Smith Club, representing the fictitious Fred Daniels, plaintiff--who jumped the Washington team of the American League--, and the E. Warren Club, representing Baseball Commissioner Handler...
...Curtiss scored two of the Kirkland tallies on penalty kicks. The third Deacon tally was scored by a Winthrop man who accidentally headed the ball into his own goal...