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Seventy-two holes of tournament golf is a lot of tournament golf for a woman when it is all medal play. The first such tournament was played last week at the Flossmoor club near Chicago where women's par is 80 strokes. Four times par was broken and once it was equalled, but the final scores in a field of 49 were a long parade beginning 14 strokes behind the par 320 scored by chunky, freckle-some Helen Hicks of Long Island. She had two course-record-breaking 78's to start with, which gave her subsequent...
Fokker's 32-Passenger. Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, 39, Java-born Dutchman, founder of the U. S. and Holland Fokker industries, last week flew his first 32-passenger sleeper plane, at Teterboro, N. J., airport. As in Pullman cars, its seats can be rearranged for berths. Distinctive are the plane's two pairs of Wasp-motors fixed tandem, and its twin rudders which are adjustable to compensate for varying engine speeds. On his trial flight Mr. Fokker set its tail on a fence. A drizzle preceded another test flight. Spectators voiced doubt that the ship would try the run under...
Baltimore's Aviation. Baltimore at her 100th anniversary (1829) fell in step with the very first U. S. railroads. At her 200th anniversary celebration last week (see p. 16) she was not only in step with the newest transportation, aviation, but well up at the head of the march. Items: The Aviation Corp. last week bought a $500,000 factory site to build Dornier all-metal transports; Glenn L. Martin Co. was to move into its new plant this week; Curtiss-Caproni Corp.'s new factory was almost completed; Berliner-Joyce Aircraft Corp. had just completed its first commercial biplane...
...final get-together of the Freshman Class before the academic year begins will take place at the Phillips Brooks House this evening at 7:30 o'clock The Brooks House reception is an annual affair for the first year men and will close the three day reception planned for the Class of 1933 by the College...
...Liberal Club dining room will be open to members today, serving both luncheon and dinner as usual, it was announced by A. D. Langmuir '31, president of the Club. Members are urged to bring guests for meals on the first few days of the term...