Word: jumpers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although no official word has been forthcoming from the H.A.A. or other sources, it is understood that the predicted close contest for the honors between Milton Green '36, star timber topper, Norman Cahners '36, hammer thrower and coming sprint man, and R. C. Hall '36, high jumper, is responsible for the deadlock...
...Well-known throughout social Manhattan are the four Damrosch daughters: Alice, a famed ski-jumper and the divorced wife of Architect Pleasants Pennington; Gretchen, who writes plays and is married to Lawyer Thomas Finletter (Coudert Bros.); Leopoldine, who plays the piano and is wife to Playwright Sidney Howard; Anita, who married Robert Littell, able author and critic...
...airmeet at Feinman Field and stumbles on a queer situation, a flying triangle. Laverne, the woman-apex, is technically married to Shumann, a racing pilot, and her little boy bears his name. But she has no idea whether Shumann or the other member of the menage, a parachute jumper, is really the father. None of them knows, and none- except the boy, who violently resents being reminded of his uncertainty-seems to care. The reporter falls desperately in love with Laverne, does everything he can to get in the trio's good graces. He hands over his apartment...
...until last week had any man actually flown under his own power with wings. That man was Clem Sohn, 23-year-old professional parachute jumper of Lansing, Mich. Strictly speaking, his adventure was not so much a flight as a sustained fall. Yet fly he did, on homemade wings, and landed on his feet to tell about...
...present, Jumper Sohn will confine his new technique to leaps from airplanes. Said he last week: "House tops are out. That's where Darius Green* was nuts-and he cracked up. I'm going at this thing in a sane...