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...second consecutive year shock-haired Pilot Harry L. Russell flew a trimotored Ford into Ford airport near Detroit last week to win the Edsel Bryant Ford Trophy for reliability in the National Air Tour (TIME, July 20). His easy victory over a field of 14 gave the Ford company its second leg of the current trophy (three consecutive victories gives permanent possession). Only once in the 6,590-mi. tour was Pilot Russell pressed for leading position, and then it was by Pilot James H. Smart flying another Ford, which finished second. Smart nearly caught up with Russell when...
When the halfway mark of the seventh annual National Air Tour was reached at New Orleans last week, only nine planes remained of the 15 which had started to compete for the Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy. Of the six flyers who cracked up or were forced down in Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee, one was fatally hurt. He was Pilot Charles Sugg whose Buhl Bull Pup was first to get away from Detroit at the start of the 6,000-mi. flight but who crashed into a hillside at Yorkville, Ohio. Lieut. Harry L. Russell, winner of the trophy last...
Nonetheless, since a big fight is always a social event of sorts, trains, planes, and autos were crowded going into Cleveland last week. A yacht brought Wisconsin's dapper young Senator La Follette; a plane brought Edsel Ford; trains brought Chicago's Mayor Cermak, onetime Heavyweight Champions James J.Corbett (1892-97), James J. Jeffries (1899-1905), James Joseph Tunney (1926-28). Bobby Jones, who had been at Toledo to watch the Open golf championship (see p. 24), came over for the weekend. But trains and autos failed to bring the expected big crowds of noncelebrities...
...week-end guests at his Rapidan camp the President last week had Edsel Ford and Theodore Roosevelt, Governor of Porto Rico who is now reported to aspire to the Governorship of the Philippines. President Hoover reached the camp just in time to settle down before a big log fire and broadcast a brief speech dedicating Cornell University's War Memorial.* His theme: the patriotism of college men who went...
Home in Detroit since he left Florida last March, Henry Ford last week had much to occupy his mind. His home life is happy. He has a son, four grandchildren: Henry Ford II, 13; Edsel Ford Jr., 11; Josephine Ford, 8; William Clay Ford, 6. He has used his money to surround himself with those things he likes. Yet Depression has not spared him. Ford sales are running about 50% lower than last year. In addition, there is every indication that the great Chevrolet v. Ford battle is more intense than ever with Chevrolet in the lead. There have been...