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Sloths & Cadets. But his interests were anything but narrow. In 1928 he turned to aviation, backed two Australian pilots, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith and Charles T. P. Ulm, in the first transpacific flight ever made. Then, at 53, he decided to learn to fly on his own. That same year, he founded a College of Aeronautics at Santa Maria, and later put that, too, at the disposal of U.S.C. During World War II, the college turned out more than 8,000 cadets, including eight of Jimmy Doolittle's Tokyo raiders. Today it is one of the best schools...
Died. Anthony Herman Gerard Fokker, 49, eccentric, Dutch aeronautical engineer, plane builder for Germany in World War I, since then for Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, for Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, for Amelia Earhart; a U. S. citizen since 1931; of pneumococcus meningitis; in Manhattan...
...second feature is built around the most threadbare of trite plots, the Cinderella story, but it at times reaches a brilliance of satirical comedy that is beyond most second features. Based on life at a Princeton week-end (Princeton is called Kingsford), the picture gives a fair conception of a gay time in those ivy-covered walls and takes high society for a bitter ride. Outside of that it also introduces an excellent portrayal by Lana Turner of an all too, too naive taxi-dance girl...
Phenix City is a good example of a bookless U. S. town, but it is by no means unusual. Literary deserts also are Shelbyville, Tenn. (pop. 5,010), Picher, Okla. (pop. 7,773), Jenkins, Ky. (pop. 8,465), Kingsford, Mich. (pop. 5,526), Manville, N. J. (pop. 5,441), many another U. S. town. Of 3,072 U. S. counties, 897 have no libraries. Of 982 cities over 10,000 population, 40 are libraryless. Thirty-two million people (geographically two-thirds of the U. S.) have no bookstores...
...Charles Kingsford-Smith took off from Lympne, Kent, in a Lockheed-Altair, Lady Southern Cross, to break the England-Australia record. He said it would be his last flight before settling down to aviation administration. Somewhere east of Allahabad, India, he disappeared. Eighteen months later, when he was almost forgotten, a wheel and a piece of undercarriage were found on the shore of tropical Aye Island, off the Burma coast. Photographs of the wheel were sent to Lockheed Aircraft Corp., makers of the plane. Last week Lockheed definitely identified the ship it came from as the Lady Southern Cross. Rangoon...