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...Jack") Northrop of Los Angeles (Lockheed Vega, Northrop Delta) wanted a pilot to test his newest attack plane he found his man in Vance Breese, oldtime mail pilot, barnstormer, test pilot and aviation theorist. To Pilot Breese Builder Northrop offered $8,000 for a 16,000-ft. vertical power-dive. Pilot Breese thought 50 per foot a fair price...
...Dive--Harvard: Bernard F. Merriam, ll '36, Henry K. Fitts '36; Alumni; Thecdore McK. Belcher...
...Dive-Edward H. Turner '36 (Low.) 45 points...
...During last week's dive Dr. Beebe saw a great grey shape slide past the bathysphere window. The fish ? species un known ? was 20 ft. long, he estimated, and garlanded with lights like an excursion boat. The lights, he guessed, were phosphorescent parasites. Mr. Barton tried to photograph the creature but had almost no time to focus his camera. The film when developed was dismally blank...
...Rockefeller Institute's famed Alexis Carrel that she was steady-fingered enough to stick pins in the edge of a piece of paper, she worked two years for the Institute as laboratory technician. When the bathysphere first went into action in 1930. she was taken along, made a dive of 410 ft. Since then she has had the women's undersea record to herself. In 1932 she went down 1,000 ft. Last week she descended in the diving ball to 1,208 ft., not with Dr. Beebe but with Otis Barton, his handsome, truculent colleague and bathysphere designer...