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...Tomorrow at three o'clock in a meadow on the Cote d'Azur I have an appointment with Pegasus. Pegasus is the name of my airplane. It has a russet body and white wings. . . . Sometimes drunk with petrol it leaps through the air like its brother of old, but in the night it can glide at will like a phantom...
...Sirs: ''He [Earl Carroll] was the first man to land an airplane in Manhattan's Central Park" (TIME, Sept. 7). Early in the spring of 1914, I landed a Sloane-Deperdussin monoplane, 50 h.p. Gnome motor (some power fer them days, by gravy!) in the sheep meadow at 66th Street. Was arrested for something-possibly, publicity for the cop who arrested me- and discharged by Magistrate MacQuade next morning. The Aero Club of America suspended my license for six months. If I remember correctly, George Beatty landed a Model B Wright on this same field at least...
...ship had started from Croydon for Paris in a storm. Over Kent one of the upper propellers whirled itself to pieces, the fragments fell and disabled the engine below it, somehow put a third one out of commission. Pilot F. Dinsmore skilfully brought the crippled ship down into a meadow. No one was hurt, but the handsome plane with its luxurious cabin and cocktail bar was expensively smashed...
...carried away the roofs of two stables, part of the roof of Saratoga's Grand Union Hotel, felled hundreds of trees one of which came down on an auto belonging to George H. Bull, president of the Saratoga Association. ¶Temperamental, towheaded George Martin Lott Jr.: the Meadow Club Invitation Tennis Tournament, at Southamp- ton, N. Y.; beating Clifford Sutter 6-3, 3-6, 2-6, 6-3, 6-1 in the finals after winning his semi-final match with ailing Ellsworth Vines by default. ¶Maxie Rosenbloom: a poorly attended, poorly contested prizefight in which he defended...
...present form in the next month's national championship, he is likely to win it, likely to replace Wimbledon Champion (by default) Wood on next year's Davis Cup team. Doeg, stung by his third tournament defeat this season, changed his plans for this week, entered the Meadow Club's invitation tournament at Southampton...