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Togo, Heihachiro, Count (created '07), Admiral of Fleet, Member of Board of Marshals & Fleet Admirals, Order of Merit (Br.), 1st Class Golden Kite and Grand Order of Chrysanthemum; born 1847, a son of petty retainer of the Lord of Kagoshima. He commenced sailor's career at 16 and at 21 first came under fire, in fighting with the late Enomoto's Kwaiten; studied in England, '71-73; in the Japan-China War commanded the cruiser Naniwa and sank the Chinese transport Kowsing, a British steamer flying the British flag (see p. 39); Rear-Admiral after...
...silk 'chute whipped out of its pack in the propeller blast, jerked Private Osborne from his perch-and fouled itself securely on the plane's tail surfaces. Twenty feet below the unhappy soldier dangled, swinging out behind the speeding plane like the weighted tail of a kite, while the cursing pilot struggled to stabilize the ship. At length the officer signalled to Osborne to cut himself loose and descend by the emergency 'chute strapped upon his chest. But Private Osborne had no knife. Then another plane flew up, maneuvered above Osborne while an officer lowered a sandbag...
...neither is without hazard. In 1924 the famed U. S. Army round-world flyers fought fog, wind and snow along the Alaska-Aleutian route (that was in May). Five years later the Russian plane Land of the Soviets crossed eastward from Siberia to Alaska. Last month little Seiji ("Kite Crazy") Yoshihara, armed with Japanese goodwill to President Hoover, flew a small Junkers seaplane from Tokyo as far as Shana in the Kuriles. There his ship was so badly buffeted that he temporarily abandoned the flight, returned to Tokyo for a new plane...
...Rising Sun flag to the top of a staff at Haneda airdrome near Tokyo one morning last week. There was many a speech, a song especially composed. A message of "highest regard" to President Hoover was handed over by the publisher of the Hochi Shimbun. Then youthful Seiji ("Kite Crazy") Yoshihara gulped a swig of consecrated sake from the Meiji shrine and jumped into his little low-wing Junkers seaplane. Someone pulled down the flag and handed it to the airman and he was off for Washington, D. C., alone...
...because the winner was Paul Berlenbach. onetime (1925-26) light heavyweight champion of the world. As many has-beens have done before him, but with more public sympathy than most. he was beginning to try to "come back." Berlenbach was a deaf mute until he was 14. Then a kite he was flying brushed against a high tension wire and the shock made him able to hear and speak, though with a difficulty which was later to make people think him "punch drunk." In 1923, when he was a Manhattan taxidriver, Berlenbach learned to wrestle and won an Olympic wrestling...