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...Flier Clarence Duncan Chamberlin is not the cinema type, as reported, Miss Ruth Elder apparently is. The New York-to-Atlantic Ocean flier was besought by Florenz Ziegfeld last week to play the part of the American girl in his motion picture to glorify that young lady...
...only U. S. Navy flier to qualify officially as an "ace" in the War was David Sinton Ingalls, a quizzical, shock-headed grandnephew of William Howard Taft. He left his class at Yale to fly and was 18 years old when the Armistice was signed. Ace Ingalls went back to college with his decorations in his pocket and applied himself to the harder heroics of graduating and getting a law degree. Then he married, was twice a father, practiced law quietly in his native Cleveland, entered the Ohio legislature. Rich, he never returned to France; but proceeded, by interesting himself...
Then, as with many another War flier, "air fever" once more laid hold of Ace Ingalls. Last week, news leaked out that he and Heraclio Alfaro, a Cleveland college instructor formerly with the Glenn L. Martin aircraft company in Cleveland, were building a plane of secret design, trying to win the Guggenheim Foundation's $100,000 prize for aeronautical progress. At the same time, people learned that Ace Ingalls was on his hometown Chamber of Commerce's aviation committee, helping to make Cleveland a bigger & better airport. Other retired fliers knew how Ace Ingalls felt when, quizzed...
...just in from Paris via Africa, South America, Mexico, New Orleans and Montgomery, Ala. They had covered 22,843 mi. and, after handshaking and photography on the South Lawn, they soon hopped off again for Manhattan, whence they thought they might fly to San Francisco before going home. Said Flier Lebrix: "We do not want to go back to Paris by plane, because Lindbergh has already done that. His flight was so chic-it would be useless repetition to follow him. After we get back to France, perhaps we shall plan the East-to-West North Atlantic flight. Qui sait...
...Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh, the flier's mother, declared that his latest undertaking was a matter that concerned him alone. . . . She then returned to her class (she teaches chemistry in the Cass Technical High School...