Word: gunther
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Holtzer Fellowships, three in numbor, have been awarded to Horst von Einsidel, of Dresden, Germany, W. W. Gunther, of Gorlitz, Germany, and Hermann Schnitzler, of Monchan, Germany. Three Austin Scholarships for Teachers have been given to R. D. Hanscom of Bethel, Maine, H. H. Long, of Washington, D.C., and A. K. Tweedle, of Cambridge. The four University Scholarships awarded this year have gone to the following: M. L. Garner, of Indianapolis, Indiana; L. M. Hill, of Lincoln, Nebraska; A. F. Linnehan, of Dorchestor; and C. N. Mills, of Normal, Illinois
Udet. Captains Ernst Udet and Gunther Plueschow shared the honor of being Germany's foremost airmen. Last month Capt. Plueschow died in a crash in South America (TIME, Feb. 9). Last week Germany came very close to losing her other idol. Having completed a motion picture job in Tanganyika, Africa, Capt. Udet headed back to Europe. Approaching Khartoum he was forced down in the miasmal Sudanese swamps. Luck was with him; he found and made a landing on one of the swamps' few patches of hard ground. There, days later, Capt. Campbell Black found him, was able to land beside...
Next year Congress gave the Cross to Capt. Herman Koehl, Major James C. Fitzmaurice and Civilian-Passenger Baron Gunther von Huenefeld, who were rescued by Pilot Balchen after their monoplane Bremen stranded on Greenly Island. Casting aside all pretense of subtlety, Congress then bestowed the Cross in turn on de Pinedo, Coste and Lebrix - all deserving flyers, thinks Writer Allen, but so are a score of others illogically excluded, among them: Balchen, Acosta, Chamberlin, the late Wilmer Stultz, Brock & Schlee, Yancey & Williams, Kingsford-Smith...
Insurmountable obstacles, a furious avalanche and one death last month caused Gunther O.Dyhrenfurth's mountain climbing party to abandon hope of ever reaching the top of Kanchenjunga, 28,150-ft. Himalayan peak (TIME, May 26, et seq.). Disliking to return home with a blank page to show for a season's work, this most elaborate climbing party that ever set forth moved twelve miles north, started up Jonsong, 24,340-ft. brother of Kanchenjunga...