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Like Hubert Scott-Paine, unsuccessful challenger for the Harmsworth Trophy for speedboats (TIME, Sept. 11), '"Tom" Sopwith is a famed British aircraft builder. He learned to fly in 1909, entered a contest next year for the longest flight by a British aviator from England into Europe. By flying 150 mi. into France he won a ?4,000 prize. In 1912 he formed Sopwith Aviation Co. Ltd. which produced the Camels, Pups and Dolphins flown by Allied pilots in the War. After the War he took as partner his longtime test-pilot Harry Hawker, who in 1919 attempted the first...
...sent him a bill, had attached all his clothes instead. Banker Otto Hermann Kahn sold "St. Dunstan's," his 12-acre estate in aristocratic Regents Park, London (until 1928 used as a hospital for blind British War veterans) to the London Daily Mail's Publisher Harold Sidney Harmsworth, Baron Rothermere of Hemsted. Banker Kahn's 800-acre estate at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. is also for sale. Frank Jay Gould, famed expatriate, youngest son of the late Jay Gould, leased his depression-starved $5,000,000 baccarat casino in Nice to a French syndicate...
...Harmsworth, Hearst, and the News...
...Hearst dailies, find the British newspaper a very dreary does indeed. Advertisements burgeon on the front page; there is everywhere a dignified and matter of fact taciturnity, a kind of well bred reluctance to arrest the attention which verges on the point d'honneur. Of recent years Lord Harmsworth, Mr. Pearson, and the intolerable Bottomley have made a hearty and sincere attempt to remedy this; they have told a great number of lies, often on important things, they have raved and stamped their feet and babbled in the true Hearstian metaphysic, and in this wise many heads have been broken...
...British International Trophy for Motor Boats was presented by the late Sir Alfred Harmsworth to the Royal Motor Yacht Club of England, which put it up for competition in 1903. Approximate cost: ?1,000. It is 27¼ by 125 in., represents two displacement power boats (not one) rounding a can buoy in a rough sea. During the War the base was damaged in London. It now rests on a base made in 1928 from the timbers of Miss America I, with which Gar Wood returned the trophy...