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Frank Wead, a navy filer and warbird was grounded several years ago and since then he has turned his talents to dramatic exposition of his inside knowledge of the air. His play, "Ceiling Zero" (if Noel gaiety hasn't too completely dulled our memory) was performed with considerable success last season in New York by the estimable Mr. Osgood Perkins, Mary Young's company of Copley Theatre players have brought the work to Boston where it has been running since Christmas...
...last event of the meet, the 220-yard hurdles. Quoting the "Daily Mail" for what it is worth. "It was a thousand pities that a bad start prevented Pilbrow from winning the last event--the low hurdles--and so giving victory to Oxford and Cambridge. Green, however, got a 'filer.' Although Pilbrow sprinted wonderfully well, he could not get on terms...
...Patrick has carried American aviation many strides forward, and holds a high position in the eyes, of his subordinates. Nothing better illustrates his character than the fact that he is the only army officer of his rank who has the privilege of wearing the insignia of a full-fledged filer. When over sixty years old he insisted on being taught to fly like any other airman, because, as he said, he wanted to experience and understand all the risks that his subordinates took. He has thus the record for age at the time-he "won his wings...