Word: guenther
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Professor Guenther Oskar Dyhrenfurth of Zurich last week cabled Berlin that his party had made a successful ascent of 25,500-ft. Queen Mary Peak in the Himalayas. The message said that Professor Dyhrenfurth's wife Hettie accompanied the others to the top, surpassing the women's mountain climbing record (23,300 ft. up Pinnacle Peak in the Eastern Karakorum Range) established 18 years ago by the late Mrs. Fannie Bullock Workman of Worcester, Mass...
...wings of the wind he had soared 155 mi., broken the world's distance record (136.8 mi.) made by the late Guenther Groenhoff in Germany's Wasserkuppe three years ago. Previous U. S. distance record (121.6 mi.) was made by du Pont last autumn in Virginia's Shenandoah valley, Elmira's rival as a U. S. soaring centre. Belittling his achievement, du Pont told newshawks: "All there was to the flight was finding clouds and going for them. ... I used a mountain only once." Same day in Elmira Richard's wife Helena Allaire Crozer...
...landing place, kept on soaring, crossed the Maryland line, started to head into Pennsylvania when rain & fog forced him back to Frederick, Md. Distance: 122^ mi.-14 mi. short of the world record . . . from Rockfish Gap to the Pennsylvania line. made from Wasserkuppe by Germany's late Guenther Groenhoff. Elated over the possibility that "Amer-ica's Wasserkuppe" had been discovered in the Blue Ridge, Jack O'Meara last week planned a 500-mi. sailplane flight from near Frederick, Md. to a point south of Nashville, Tenn...
...same year that Albert Frank founded his firm, Rudolph Guenther was born in Vienna, the son of a philologist. His father immigrated to the U. S., be came managing editor of the Milwaukee Herald. Son Rudolph grew up in the circulation and advertising offices of news papers, at 16 established the Lake View (Ill.) Review with his brother Louis as staff. Brother Louis Guenther is now publisher of The Financial World. Rudolph ventured to Manhattan with capital of $3 in 1896, set himself up as an advertising agent the following year. Like Albert Frank he prospered, now collects rare books...
Last week, while U. S. pilots were soaring over what they like to call "America's Wasserkuppe" (Elmira), Guenther Groenhoff, No. 1 soaring pilot of Germany, took off from the real Wasserkuppe, in the Rhoen Mountains, to ride before a thunderstorm. At about 250 ft. his sailplane's rudder carried away. Pilot Groenhoff jumped but his 'chute had no time to open. He plunged into a wood, was killed...