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Near Shenandoah, Iowa, Raymond Funk, flyer, survivor of five airplane crashes, was hit on the chin by the board seat of a child's swing. The rope encircled his neck, choked him to death...
...place gliders; one a Heraclio Alfaro flown by Lieut.-Commander Ralph S. Barnaby & wife (he made the first airplane-airship hook-on experiments by dropping from the U. S. S. Los Angeles in a glider); the other designed and flown by Dr. Frank Gross and Joseph F. Funk of Akron...
...open fire to boil. After wheeling & turning about the hills for an hour, Dr. Gross suddenly remembered his cooking, swooped low over the heads of the crowd on the ridge, asked someone to look to the potatoes, floated away again. (The potatoes were burned.) For 5 hr. 8 min. Funk & Gross stayed up, Dr. Gross becoming so weary that he let his legs dangle over the edge of the fuselage...
While he was busy slashing overhead in Spur's spacious Madison Avenue offices (he began by making the magazine a monthly), Publisher Tichenor was telephoned by a friend that Outlook & Independent, which suspended publication in April, was that day to be auctioned by a bankruptcy referee. Funk & Wagnalls were bidding $2,000 for it, planning only to use its subscription list for the Literary Digest. A faithful admirer of the late Theodore Roosevelt, who wrote for Outlook in its heyday, Publisher Tichenor bustled downtown to court, determined to see old Outlook kept alive. He sent the bidding skyward...