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...Copenhagen, Professor Auguste Piccard announced that he would attempt to break the 72,395-ft. stratosphere record of Major Orvil A. Anderson & Captain Albert W. Stevens (TIME. Nov. 18, 1935) needed $60,000 backing for which he would consider offers from all but liquor and tobacco sellers. Said he: "Any firm dealing in soap, motorcars, vacuum cleaners or whatnot will...
Newcomers to the 1936-37 Who's Who in America: Physicist Albert Einstein, Senator Rose McConnel Long, Maine's Governor Louis Jefferson Brann, Stratospherists Orvil A, Anderson & Captain Albert William Stevens, Cinemactress Shirley Temple. Voluble Surgeon Charles Horace Mayo of Rochester, Minn, supplied the longest biography (151 lines), surpassing by one line Manhattan Lawyer Samuel Untermeyer...
South Dakota State School of Mines (Rapid City) Stratosphere Balloonist Orvil A. Anderson ... D.E. Secretary Arthur Barrette Parson of American Institute of Mining & Metallurgical Engineers...
Stevens broke the altitude record in November when he and Captain Orvil A. Anderson ascended 13.71 miles into the stratosphere over South Dakota...
...smithereens (TIME, Aug. 6, 1934). Last summer, after months more of ballyhoo, their second balloon popped before it got off the ground (TIME, July 22). Last week, after no ballyhoo at all, the same patched-up balloon finally set the record on which Captains Albert W. Stevens and Orvil A. Anderson had set their hearts...