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Neither route is totally virginal to aircraft; and neither is without hazard. In 1924 the famed U. S. Army round-world flyers fought fog, wind and snow along the Alaska-Aleutian route (that was in May). Five years later the Russian plane Land of the Soviets crossed eastward from Siberia to Alaska. Last month little Seiji ("Kite Crazy") Yoshihara, armed with Japanese goodwill to President Hoover, flew a small Junkers seaplane from Tokyo as far as Shana in the Kuriles. There his ship was so badly buffeted that he temporarily abandoned the flight, returned to Tokyo for a new plane...
Pilot Yoshihara proposed to make 20 stops en route to San Francisco, via Petropavlovsk, Alberta; the Aleutian Islands; Seward, Alaska; Vancouver. He carries no radio, will fly far off the regular track of ocean vessels. His worst hazard: Fogs, while he tries to locate his re-fuelling stations along the 6,268 mi. route to San Francisco. A forced landing in the bergstrewn Bering Sea would allow little hope of survival. Smiling little Seiji expected to complete his flight late this month...
...time an able chairman of the Yale Literary Magazine, Keysman Hobson wrote: "I hazard the guess that Tap Day is doomed, along with the antimacassar, the wall motto, and the works of Sarah Orne Jewett...
...French emigre from Santo Domingo who had made a fortune in real estate in Louisiana and New York. He died in Providence, R. I. 75 years later. A confirmed aristocrat and cosmopolite, he traveled extensively, read voraciously, married Margaret Mason Perry, a granddaughter of Oliver Hazard ("We-have-met-the-enemy-and -they -are -ours") Perry. He rather disliked and distrusted the U. S. scene, the U. S. citizenry. In his later years it gave him an actual physical revulsion to shake hands with or touch strangers. As an artist he had a magnificent sense of composition, easily held...
...Manhattan socialites were more interested in the opera of his sons and grandchildren. There were eleven of them in the show, ranging from 69-year-old Christopher Grant to 16-year-old John II. Water-colors by the three sons, Artist Bancel, Architect Christopher Grant, Retired Banker Oliver Hazard Perry, showed that they had drunk deep of Father John's medicine. Largest exhibits were the enormous cartoons for the mosaic tympanum of Washington's Trinity College Chapel by Son Bancel and Grandson Thomas Sergeant...