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...York Mirror's Sunday magazine section as a girl watcher, interviewing starlets-real, would-be and soiled-so often that a Mirror rule, which limited him to only one byline a day, has forced him to appear under such pseudonyms as Amos Coggins, Gabriel Prevor, Reg Ovington, Jaime Montdor (Spanish-French for Hymie Goldberg), Robert Benevy and Veigh S. Meer-a phonetic rendition of the Yiddish for "Woe is me." Goldberg rarely has trouble cornering subjects. "When they see me come, all fear vanishes," says he. "There is first my distinguished white hair. Then my baby-blue eyes. Also...
...story of its shameful deeds toward us." A well-to-do New York white woman, Mary White Ovington, covered that speech for the New York Evening Post, with other liberals conceived the idea of a national biracial conference on the Negro question. She helped persuade Post Publisher Oswald Garrison Villard, who later edited the Nation for 15 years, to write a "Call to Action" that led directly to the formation of the N.A.A.C.P. Among those who issued the call on Lincoln's Birthday 1909 were Professor John Dewey, William Lloyd Garrison, Jane Addams, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and Lincoln...
Died. Earle Lewis Ovington, 57, first commissioned U. S. air mail pilot; after long illness; in Los Angeles. In 1911 he flew a mail sack two miles from Garden City to Mineola, L. I. on nine successive days...
...Pilot Ovington is the eldest grandson of Edward Judson Ovington, one of the founders of Ovington's, famed gift shop on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. He took the degree of electrical engineer at M. I. T. in 1904, became interested in aviation in 1910 while reporting the First International Aviation Meet at Belmont Park, L. I. for the New York Times. Two months later he sailed for Europe to be taught to fly by Louis Blériot, first man to fly the English Channel.* In another three months he took his "brevet," or pilot's license...
Since then he has been active as an engineer, shipbuilder, bacteriologist, airport operator, realtor. In Santa Barbara, where he owns Ovington Air Terminal, he flies his thirteenth plane. He is also an ardent, skilled yachtsman. He is president of the Early Birds, organization of pilots who won their wings prior...