Word: herrick
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Memorialized by Novelist Robert Herrick, a onetime Gehring patient, in The Master...
Christened the "Vertaplane" by its inventor, Gerard Post Herrick (distant kin of onetime Ambassador to France Myron T. Herrick) of New York City, the craft has a strong pylon with a vertical mast which holds the top wing firmly in place for ordinary flying, and when released allows it to revolve on a bearing for a gyro landing. By virtue of a starting mechanism in the wing which starts rotation on the ground, the Vertaplane can make a gyro takeoff as well as a gyro landing. It weighs 1,700 lb., has a 125-h.p. motor. Said happy Inventor Herrick...
Died. Parmely Webb Herrick, 55 banker (Hayden Stone & Co.), orchid- raiser, son of the late great U. S. Ambassador to France Myron Timothy Herrick of cerebral hemorrhage, in Manhattan where he had moved three years ago from Cleveland. In Paris in 1927, when his father welcomed Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Parmely Herrick lent the hero a suit of clothes which was returned to him, six months later, neatly pressed...
...Crimson scorers were Bob Haydock in the high jump, John Herrick in the discus, and Steve Brennan and Ed Young in the hammer. The other ten men of Jaakko's team were shut out in Friday's trials...
...Haydock with three other men tied for second place in the high jump at 6 ft. 1-2 in. The fact that Badman of Yale did not place in this event makes Haydock definitely a member of the Oxford Cambridge team. John Herrick in the discus turned in almost the poorest distance he has done this spring. His best was a little over 141 ft. while against Yale a week ago he threw...