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HARVARD TUFTS Faude, g. g., Morton Des Roches, r.f. l.f., Milligan Catinella, l.f. r.f., Mazzola E. C. Carter, r.h. l.h., Maclaren W. D. Carter, c.h. c.h., Urban Bland, l.h. r.h., Johnson Grover, r.o. l.o., Mottla Eaton, r.i. l.i., Real Vogel, c.f. c.f., Mendez Frame, l.i., r.i., Verge Carrigan, l.o. r.o., Ricketts...
...February, 1926, Miguel Abadia Mendez was elected...
Late in November Lieut. Benjamin ("Benny the Gas Boy") Mendez, U. S.-trained chief pilot of Colombia's air service, rose from the field at Rockaway Naval Air Station, L. I., to fly 4,600 miles to Bogota, capital of Colombia (TIME, Dec. 24). He expected to take four days. Last week he arrived, in another plane. He had been to Jacksonville. Havana. Puerto Barrios, Colon, Cartagena. Barranquilla, Girardot. He had torpedoed into the water at Colon, blasted into a tree at Girardot. After the first eight days he was 2.350 miles from his starting point. After the next...
Colombia's Lt. Benny. Lieutenant Benjamin Mendez, young Colombian flyer, affectionately called "Benny" at the Curtiss Flying Field where he trained, was still at Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, last week. Three weeks ago he kissed Manhattan friends goodbye and started to fly to Bogota, Colombia, in his Curtiss seaplane, the Ricaurte (TIME, Dec. 3). He cleared the U. S., the Greater Antilles, Central America. Then two weeks ago he insisted on leading a fleet of welcoming planes into Colon Bay. Overeager to alight, he pitched into the water. Last week his Ricaurte was not yet repaired...
President Miguel Abadia Mendez declared martial law, peace was restored, and from Santa Marta sailed a laden ship owned and operated by the United Fruit...