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Sikorsky was just 19 when he set out, in 1909, on a pilgrimage from Kiev to Paris, then the mecca of aviation. The early aeronauts who had hived there were mostly grease-stained motorcycle or automobile racers who flew?or tried to fly?out of the sheer love of risking...
The Czar himself came to see the aerial behemoth and presented Sikorsky with a gold watch bearing the two-headed eagle of Imperial Russia. Igor was 24, one of the world's leading'aircraft designers and a famous man. In a few years he was worth half a million dollars...
This year, for the first time at an opening of Parliament, Elizabeth wore the Imperial State Crown laden with 3,095 jewels,* as she read the speech written for her by Winston Churchill's ministers. A House of Lords gallery packed with such alert first-nighters as Noel Coward...
How Wright translated his own basic principles into practice could be seen in a big, retrospective show of photos, plans and models, on display last week in a giant, slab-roofed pavilion -he designed for the purpose on a vacant Manhattan lot adjoining the Guggenheim Museum. If Wright can overcome...
The new 1954 Chryslers, which came out this week, looked about the same as last year's models on the outside but had a big change inside. By improving the carburetor and enlarging the intake and exhaust valves to permit freer "breathing" of its "FirePower" engine, Chrysler boosted horsepower...