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Lieutenants John A. Macready and Oakley Kelly finished the first cross-continental non-stop flight in the history of aviation, landing at Rockwell Field, San Diego, after flying 26 hours and 50 minutes and covering approximately 2,600 miles from their point of departure at Roosevelt Field, Long Island...
Lieutenants Kelly and Macready, who made the first non-stop airplane flight across the United States, are enrolled in that "Legion", although their membership is nowhere to be soon on a roster. They are proving their right to the places their spirit had chosen for them alongside Vasco de Gama, Stanley, Perry and all pioneers...
...Eshington, Northumberland, a new non-stop dancing record was established by Victor Hindmarch, who kept at it for 25 hours. His partner, Miss Delia Dunn retired af-ter 22 hours and 21 minutes, but the untiring Hindmarch continued with a woman spectator...
...Methodist Church. (P. 26.) Gilbert M. Hitchcock-not too proud to be a journalist. (P. 21.) Rear-Admiral Weeks. (P. 7.) Brainless women-who make the best wives. (P. 19.) An average speed of 250 miles an hour-in a blinding sandstorm. (P. 27.) Victor Hindmarch-when his non-stop dancing partner retired a-faint, he continued with a woman spectator. (P. 31.) "Laddie"; Sanford - American sportsman. (P. 28.) A Supreme Court potent enough to do "ten times as much work as it did in the days of Marshall." (P. 4.) The Oxford crew and the Oxford track team...
...development by the British Air Ministry of an oil burning airplane attaining a speed of three miles a minute and capable of a thousand mile non-stop flight...