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...wealth were startled last week by a newspaper interview issued by Charles R. Flint, 77-year- old, white-whiskered Manhattan multimillionaire, honeymooning in London with the second Mrs. Flint...
...Flint was asked why a man like himself, "after he has amassed millions, goes on increasing his collection instead of retiring and en- joying life." Mr. Flint replied: "There is only one reason. Greed!" The interviewer protested: "Is it not because of ambition, a craving for power?" Mr. Flint repeated: "No! It is pure, green greed. . . . Greed, and greed alone, is the reason for a man's wanting to swell his wad million after million!" Mr. Flint, who as the "Father of Trusts"- made his money in shipping, electric lighting, rubber, chewing gum, munitions, etc., was asked the secret...
...ground at Oakland, Calif., for the first takeoff, and the race was on. At intervals behind him rose John W. Frost flying the Golden Eagle; Capt. W. P. Erwin flying the Dallas Spirit; J. Auggy Pedlar flying the Miss Doran (carrying with him Miss Mildred Doran, school teacher from Flint, Mich.); Goebel; and Jensen. Pabco Flyer and El Encanto crashed at the start. Soon Erwin returned with an unlucky windhole in his fuselage. Soon Griffin returned, his engine failing. Out over the blue Pacific flew Goebel, Jensen; Frost, Pedlar; and their navigators; and Pedlar's passenger...
...score naval vessels and 20 merchant ships, navy and army planes combed the Pacific. Flint, Mich., and San Francisco proclaimed public prayer for the lost flyers...
...Algeria, Alonzo W. Pond of the Logan Museum (Beloit College) found a prehistoric child's bones, beneath a layer of flint and bone implements. Mr. Pond was inclined to join the school of thought which designates Africa as the cradle of humanity...