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...University gave the Clinic a second boarding house to equip for research. Connected by a corridor, these two houses look like one unit, hap-hazardly thrown together. While Clinic officials knew that their laboratory was old, they never believed it was feeble. But in 1948, a University inspector found that the wooden pillars supporting the house were rotting away...
Kindelberger moved the company from Maryland to California, built trainers for foreign countries as Europe armed for war. At a 1938 meeting with Airmen Curtis LeMay, Hap Arnold and Tooey Spaatz, he read a statement on why the U.S. should buy more North American trainers. The airmen agreed, but pointed out that they had no money. Later, when Dutch approached Arnold again, the need was for fighters, not basic trainers. Said Kindelberger: "My dear general, these are not basic trainers. These are basic combat planes.'' He plugged the idea, eventually got an order for the T-6 Texan...
...aviation's surviving Early Birds; of a heart ailment; in Los Angeles. A boyhood neighbor of Wilbur and Orville Wright in Dayton. Ohio, he became their first pupil, soloed after 2½ hours' instruction, taught scores of American pilots to fly, including the late General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold. Retiring in 1919, he began manufacturing aircraft parts, helped in the development of World War II's 6-24 Liberator bomber...
...fact that the paper's editors were just as baffled by its set-up as the Bureau of Internal Revenue will come as no surprise to any past or present Crimed. As one editor put it, "The CRIMSON is an amazingly complex operation run in an amazingly hap-hazard way which results in an amazingly successful newspaper...
...whole nasty, hap-hazard business started on January 24, 1873, when a group of juniors produced the first issue of a semi-weekly journal called "The Magenta" (it became The CRIMSON two years later when the College's official color was changed). The tiny, 8 x 10 inch Magenta was primarily a literary magazine which relied heavily on the essay and ran about two poems per issue. It did print College news, however, and in 1878 added an athletic column and a "sporting editor...