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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, when the enormous helium-filled alligator, pig, drum-major, etc., etc., were drifting foolishly over Manhattan and Long Island, a student flyer named Annette Gibson, 22, carrying Instructor Hugh Copeland as passenger, steered her cabin monoplane for a near view. Presently she found herself face to face with a 60-ft. striped tomcat. Yielding to impulse, Miss Gibson plowed into the bag. The punctured fabric wrapped itself about the wing, put the plane into a spin. Miss Gibson cut off the ignition, saw the rooftops of Queens gyrating toward her. Then Instructor Copeland seized her shoulder, yelled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Girl v. Tomcat | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

Convening for its forty-fifth annual session, the Geological Society of America will meet in the Harvard Union on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, December 28, 29, and 30, with over 400 prominent geologists in attendance, it was announced yesterday by Russell Gibson, assistant professor of Geology, who is chairman of the committee arranging the convention. Harvard, M.I.T., and the Boston Geological Society are hosts for the gathering...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AMERICAN GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY TO MEET HERE IN CHRISTMAS RECESS | 12/2/1932 | See Source »

Frederick W. Lane, Jr. of Tacoma, Raymond J. Langebach of Spokane, Gibson B. Clay of Seattle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AWARD 180 AIDS, SCHOLARSHIPS TO MEMBERS OF 1936 | 12/1/1932 | See Source »

Metropolitan--"If I had a Million." Cooper, Ruggles, Oakie, Skipworth, Gibson, and 10 other stars. What would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BILLS AND BILLBOARDS | 11/25/1932 | See Source »

With $1,000,000 pledged in advance, Banker Harvey Dow Gibson, chairman for the second year of New York City's Emergency Unemployment Relief Committee, formally opened its $15,000,000 drive. His business & professional sub-committees working smoothly. Chairman Gibson went home to his Long Island estate, rode out on a foxhunt, collided with a hanging tree branch. Blood streaming down his face, he hurried to a physician, had the wound stitched up, finished the hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 21, 1932 | 11/21/1932 | See Source »

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