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Dates: during 1920-1929
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It is an axiom of professional tennis that Kozeluh can be beaten by any player who scores his aces twice in succession, a condition made necessary by the fact that Kozeluh is pretty sure to return the first ace. This small, brown Czechoslovakian, who punctuates his game with little whirls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tennis: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Died. William Reed, 19, son of Professor Elmer Bliss Reed of Yale; off the Maine coast in Frenchman's Bay; of drowning. Three weeks ago he was lost with his sloop in a squall. The body was found by a lobster fisherman off Egg Rock Light after 150 lobster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Fire Fighter. Unknown is the flyer who last week saved Farmer Walter Schiffer's home at Evansville, Ind. from burning. The barn and smokehouse had burned to earth, the granary was throwing its flames at the house. Neighbors were carrying furniture and gear outdoors. Then-the flyer appeared. All...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Flights & Flyers: Oct. 7, 1929 | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Blind flying, where nothing of the ground or horizon can be seen, is the terror of aviation. At the speed of plane flight (100 m.p.h., usually) a pilot loses his sense of balance. At night or in fog, where he cannot orient himself against ground objects, he flies to one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Blind Flying Accomplished | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

Three new instruments developed† during the eleven months' work made Lieutenant Doolittle's work possible. Those instruments: 1) Visual radio direction finder consisted of two reeds vibrating in consonance with a new short range radio beacon at Mitchel Field. When the plane is directly in the path...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Blind Flying Accomplished | 10/7/1929 | See Source »

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