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...Bennet Griffin, flying the Oklahoma, rose from the ground at Oakland, Calif., for the first takeoff, and the race was on. At intervals behind him rose John W. Frost flying the Golden Eagle; Capt. W. P. Erwin flying the Dallas Spirit; J. Auggy Pedlar flying the Miss Doran (carrying with him Miss Mildred Doran, school teacher from Flint, Mich.); Goebel; and Jensen. Pabco Flyer and El Encanto crashed at the start. Soon Erwin returned with an unlucky windhole in his fuselage. Soon Griffin returned, his engine failing. Out over the blue Pacific flew Goebel, Jensen; Frost, Pedlar; and their navigators...
...hungry? Am I tired? Am I thirsty? Am I in need of anything? Do I want an automobile? Will I come to a banquet? Will I take a drive about the city? Every Optimist is ready and eager to serve the stranger in a strange city."?George O. Griffin of San Francisco...
...Crosby, R. McD. Cunningham, Langdon Dearborn, D. P. Donaldson, R. T. Dunn, George Eaton, T. H. Eliot, A. V. Ellis, Herbert Farnsworth, R. G. Fiske, LeB. R. Foster, H. C. Fox. D. A. Garrison, W. B. Gentleman, Walter Gierasch, R. E. Gregg, W. I. Gregg, F. R. Griffin, J. M. Hallowell, R. L. Batch, C. R. Hayes, M. P. Higgins, Hamilton Heard, C. E. Henderson, H. N. Higginbotham, R. B. Bocking, A. A. Holbrook, Ellis Humphreys, R. L. Hunneman, J. A. Hutchinson, Robert Impink, E. B. Jackson, L. C. Jones, V. O. Jones, C. R. Keene, D. J. Kelley...
...named "Collins"? Were less-distant ancestors named "Colynge"? Sc, last week, Marc J. Rowe, heraldic artist, who traced the Coolidge family back for centuries. He added that "Coolidge" probably was not of Irish origin. Artist Rowe displayed in Washington a painting of the Coolidge coat of arms, a gold griffin on a green field, with the insignia "Virtute et Fide" (Virtue and Faith). The griffin, said Mr. Rowe, symbolizes watchfulness. It appears also in the coat of arms of J. P. Morgan...
Shrewd, Mr. Griffin called the attention of Australians to the major defect of Washington, D. C. The city, as originally planned, was to have expanded in concentric rings about the Capitol. But what has happened? Washington has grown so disproportionately westward that the Capitol now clings to the city's eastward fringe. A development so lopsided and undignified, decided Australians, shall not recur at Canberra...