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...everything at once. For company she had Patsy, 7, daughter of Mrs. Frederick B. Butler. Mrs. Hoover's social secretary; Robert, 11, son of Hoover Secretary Joslin; John Marshall, 11, and Grace, children of Hoover Secretary Newton. Peggy Ann's father was there too, plump-cheeked and heavier, out for his first fun since his convalescence at Asheville. Because they were "circus-minded" Mrs. Hoover also took along her White House guests, Mrs. Stark McMullin of Palo Alto and Hugh Gibson, U. S. Ambassador to Belgium...
Over Dayton, birthplace of heavier-than-air craft, General Foulois and his staff of 150 watched the first demonstration of the three-week maneuvers. Flight after flight took the air, darkening the sky, drowning the city's traffic roar. For the first time since the War militia planes, 99 of them from 18 States, and cadets from Kelly Field, took part in regular Army formations. Main event of the first day was a contest for honor position during the maneuvers between the 95th squadron, 20th Pursuit Group (Rockwell Field), and the 36th squadron, First Pursuit Group (Selfridge Field...
...heavier-than-air phase, too, of Britain's military aviation is suffering evil days. Last fortnight brought the death of famed speed flyer Flight Lieut. Henry Richard Danvers Waghorn, 41st pilot of the Royal Air Force to die by crash since the first of the year. In London last week the Marquess of Donegall charged that Lieut. Waghorn and many another R. A. F. flyer would be alive today but for the "obsolete" type of parachute issued by the Air Ministry. This 'chute, he said, is not guaranteed to open under 800 or 1,000 ft. But Lord...
...favorite. It goes up against two unbeaten crews in Cornell and Syracuse, and in Cornell is found the general choice to retain unbeaten laurels. Syracuse, forced by the sudden collapse of stroke Millon Weiler to make its erstwhile-University the Jayvee boat and to elevate the heavier but slower Tom Lombard shell to the first ranks, has lost ground in the pre-race expectations, while Tech, greatly improved, is taken into altogether too little consideration...
...measurements of the mothers of Harvard men, Mr. Bowles discovered data on 501 mothers and their daughters who has attended Wellesley, Vassar, Smith, and Mt. Holyoke. The college daughters average 5 feet 4 8-10 inches in height. They are 1 1-10 inches taller and 7.25 pounds heavier than their mothers. Comparative data seem to indicate that this increase in weight has been going on for the last century. The daughters surpass their mothers in every dimension except breadth of hips, and in this dimension there is a superiority on the part of the mothers, amounting...