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...freedom for the stage by begging a passing stranger to marry her. He did. She left him, started on an international career which included four marriages and. according to the narrative, acquaintance with such statesmen as the late Theodore Roosevelt (who she says gave her "a magnificent set of Haviland china"), the late Lord Kitchener (who she says gave her "a cross between a yacht and a houseboat"), King Edward VII of Britain, Herbert Hoover, King Leopold of the Belgians, and such celebrities as Fanny Ward, Harry Kendall Thaw, Morris Gest. Once she started from London to go around...
...British De Haviland Moth was the only foreign plane displayed. That lack of foreign makes vexed the large group of European aeronautic authorities who visited the show on their way to the International Aeronautics Conference at Washington, this week, and the 28th flying anniversary at Kitty Hawk...
...duty express planes, its 3OO-h. p. Whirlwind for multi-motored passenger carriers, its 225-h. p. Whirlwind for medium-sized passenger planes, its 150-h. p. Whirlwind for small runabout planes. Topping those advertisements, Wright's then announced that they would manufacture the loo-h. p. De Haviland Gypsy, a four-cylinder-in-line air-cooled engine (the other Wrights are radial air-cooled) for small gadabouts.† Usufructs of this astute advertising: people have bought twice as many planes as last year; next year they will buy twice as many as this; and they may naturally...
...Vicomte and Vicomtesse de Sibour had their hunting clothes sent on to Africa; trunks of tropical clothes together with trifles were despatched to Bombay and Penang. They took with them however in two bags which were stowed into the De Haviland Moth, evening clothes and other proper equipment for polite traveling. At the airdrome, a reporter asked questions which de Sibour answered with a little diatribe on the advantages of aviation. "The running expenses come to $15 per week at maximum. . . . My wife and I haven't been in a train all year. ... If you see an interesting tower...
...Fred Lamprecht, giant blond tackle of Tulane University's noted football team, last week at the Merion Cricket Club duplicated the record of Dexter Cummings by winning the intercollegiate golf championship for the second successive year. Spectators applauded when Lamprecht stopped Paul Haviland of Yale in the morning round by a putt for a 2 on the 13th. Some spectators were amazed when Haviland was eliminated in the afternoon round by a putt for a 2 on the 13th. Other blase watchers recalled that last year at Montclair Lamprecht defeated Jack Westland of Washington University 9-7 by means...