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...GIBSON (W.W.) Fires. In Three Parts...
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...
...Miss Gibson climbed over the back of the pilot's seat while the instructor eased down into it. In doing so she was whirled against the cabin door, which flew open. Her foot caught in a safety strap, saved her. Pilot Copeland pulled the plane safely out of the spin about 100 ft. above the chimney tops-so low that 700 persons telephoned a crash alarm to police...
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...
Frederick W. Lane, Jr. of Tacoma, Raymond J. Langebach of Spokane, Gibson B. Clay of Seattle...