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...squadron commander, lean, black-eyed Captain Thomas G. Lanphier, tangled with a low-flying Zero, shot it down. He swung away, picked a bomber, shot it down too. Up above, the top-cover fight had broken off. A mission had been completed. The squadron whisked back to its Solomons base, wondered if it had nailed some Jap bigwig in the bombers...
...Association for Legalizing American Lotteries, on which the Post Office took its first and firmest action, is headed by Major Thomas George Lanphier, U. S. A., retired. Of proceeds from the sale of numbered applications for membership in the Association. Grand National Treasure Hunt keeps 50% for expenses and 25% "for itself." Harder to win than Golden Stakes, Grand National Treasure Hunt involves eight cartoons, lists 30 song titles under each one. Winners, picked by a jury of "artists and song experts," get prizes totaling...
...group headed by Major Thomas G, Lanphier, onetime flying instructor and later business associate (in Bird Aircraft Corp. and T. A. T.) of Col. Lindbergh, bought Manhattan's padlocked Phoenix Cereal Beverage Co.. applied for a license to manufacture 3.2 beer under the brewery's old name of Flanagan-Nay Brewery Corp. Since 1925 the brewery has reputedly been run, with William ("Big Bill") Dwyer, by famed Racketeer Owen ("Owney") Madden, now confidently awaiting parole in Sing Sing prison, who last year ordered an airplane from, and was instructed by. Major Lanphier (TIME, June...
...famed New York underworldlings, Owen ("Owney") Madden and Charles ("Vannie") Higgins, were discovered to be taking flying lessons, independently of each other, at New York airports. Ex-Convict Madden, who says he is in the "laundry business," has ordered an elaborately equipped biplane from his instructor, Major Thomas Lanphier, U. S. A. retired, partner of Col. Lindbergh in Bird Aircraft Co. Rumrunner Higgins. who calls himself a "lobster fisherman," is said to own an Ireland amphibian. When they arrive at Roosevelt Field for lessons, their first questions are: "Madden been here today?", "Higgins around...
...Lanphier, "Miss America, 1925," returned to the Paramount Cinema Studios at Hollywood?where once she displayed herself in The American Venus? as a typist...