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Trials to win $100,000 for the safest plane extant began at Mitchel Field, L. I., last week. The Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics provided the prize money, and an additional $10,000 for each of the first five planes to qualify in the contest. Entries must register before Oct. 3. Until last week only a dozen were listed as competitors. Six were U. S. makes...
Died. Charles Francis Brush, 80, famed scientist, inventor of an arc light and storage battery, lately appointed national chairman of a campaign for a $2,250,000 endowment fund by the American Philosophical Society; in Cleveland...
After a year's study (financed by $12,000 from the Daniel Guggenheim Fund for the Promotion of Aeronautics) the National Aeronautic Association last week was able to present concrete plans for private flying clubs. Such clubs exist in England and Canada, where the Governments subsidize them as an aspect of national defense (TIME, June 3). In the U. S., club flying, like commercial aviation, must depend on private finances, although the Government gave commercial aviation backbone by means of mail contracts and Government officials are now initiating plans for the clubs...
...glass-covered box at Madison Square Garden, did begin to pass last week when showgirls from Florenz Ziegfeld's Whoopee turned out to sell tickets for a fight on June 27 in the Yankee Stadium. Although ostensibly to benefit New York poor children by swelling the Milk Fund, and although the world's championship will not be at issue, this fight loomed far more significantly than the inconclusive Dempsey-promoted by-play at Miami last winter between U. S. Heavyweights Stribling and Sharkey...
...Milk Fund fighters are both foreigners. To become Champion, the winner would probably have to whip Sharkey, who "won" at Miami, and perhaps Dempsey, who has never formally "retired" since losing to Tunney. But one of these two foreigners is called Champion of Europe. And the other one looks and fights more like the Dempsey of old than any one since that Dempsey...