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...Donald Coster (né Musica), with Richard Whitney, now in Sing Sing Prison, as runner-up. Sportsman of the Year was Tennist Donald Budge, champion of the U. S., England, France, Australia. Aviator of the Year was 33-year-old Howard Robard Hughes, diffident millionaire, who flew a sober, precise, foolproof course 14,716 miles round the top of the world in three days, 19 hours, eight minutes...
...McGill made an early reputation by winning every case he brought to trial, then spent two undistinguished decades in criminal law and local politics before he was elected to fill the Senate vacancy left by Hoover Vice President Charles Curtis in 1930. Two years later he won a practically foolproof campaign as a Roosevelt and Labor man against old Republican Senator Henry Allen...
...swift, silver Lockheed monoplane that Hughes had whipped off Floyd Bennett Field for Paris a little over four days earlier, was the most foolproof private plane that ever flew. It had two radio compasses, three radio transmitters (see p. 50), three receivers. It had a Sperry gyro-pilot, a new type drift indicator, robot navigational control. It had a crew of four men trained in the use of all these instruments...
...happened to many a plane in Hell's Angels when Howard Hughes was putting an inherited fortune made from oil-well drills into movies instead of aviation, this foolproof ocean-spanning plane had been forced down, that contingency was provided for, too. Aboard were two inflatable rubber rafts, with stocks of water, "nose cups" to condense breath into emergency water supply, concentrated rations, a can opener. To inflate the rafts there were cylinders of carbon dioxide covered with woolen jackets, and a supply of canvas gloves with which to handle them, since compressed carbon dioxide freezes its container when...
...half, I Married An Angel pins all its hopes on being fluffy, fleecy, feathery swansdown. And fluffy, fleecy, feathery indeed is Actress Zorina with her pale face, charming figure, dainty dancing and foolproof accent; never more so than in the scene where she is visited by her sister angels from Heaven and floats across the stage cooing their names: Clarrinda, Rosa-leena, Seronel-la, Arabella. In the same mood are at least two of Composer Rodgers' best tunes: I Married An Angel (a natural for the hurdy-gurdies) and Spring Is Here...