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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Toronto & Syracuse Shows. Overshadowed by the Cleveland Air Races & Show but important in their own compass were shows last week at Syracuse, N. Y. and Toronto. At Syracuse, Aaron Kranz performed a feat which with less other air news would have brought great newspaper headlines. When an exhaust pipe of an endurance plane cracked, he went up in another plane, climbed down a rope ladder to the first, made repairs, then dropped to earth by parachute...
...Lynn) Heath, near-sighted (practicing a side-slip landing at Cleveland); Edwin Kirk, Great Lakes Aircraft mechanic, Lady Heath's passenger; William Patterson MacCracken, retiring Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics (rushing from the races to greet the Graf Zeppelin at Lakehurst); Norma Stevens of Columbus, Ohio (parachute jumping); N. K. Lankford, Navy flyer (crashed at Lorain, Ohio...
...Ithaca, N. Y., 253 men and 350 women scanned twelve photographs given them by Dr. Richard S. Uhrbrock, assistant professor of Rural Education, lecturer in Cornell University's course on Hotel Administration. The pictures were faces of twelve men who had taken the Thorndike intelligence test. Six had scored high, six had scored low. The 603 scanners carefully examined each face, guessed at cranial capacities, studied brightness of eye, firmness of mouth, tried to separate the stupid from the brilliant. Two photographs they observed in particular. From one smirked a dull, stupid face with drooping lips and averted, timid...
Thousand Island Dress-C N...