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Aeronautical eyes turned to Detroit this week, not so much for the All-American aircraft show there exhibited, as for six stock commercial airplanes there equipped with the 225 h. p., oil-burning Packard Diesel type engine. Largest of the six is a Ford all-metal transport, powered with three Packard Diesels in place of the Wright Whirlwinds customarily installed. Ford announced that Diesels would be optional equipment in future. So did Stinson Aircraft Corp. Chief virtues of the engine, which has been developed in the U. S. with considerable secrecy by Packard Motors Co.: low cost of fuel, reduction...
Directed by Assistant Professor F. C. Packard '20, the cast turns what to read is merely an amusing play into a really humorous "Comedy of Errors". And it is, incidentally this play upon which Shakespeare based his comedy, the plots being almost identical. Carleton Green '30 carries off the laurels for the acting by his grimacing and gesticulating representation of the part of Peniculus, parasite of Menaechmus I. The rest of the cast, moreover, also puts on an extremely convincing performance, and the combined efforts of all make the revival well worth seeing...
...work at the Capitol, found that his automobile was not functioning properly. He telephoned a garage, ordered repairs, arranged that the garageman was to leave another automobile for his use. When he was through for the day, Senator Oddie went to the Capitol Plaza, picked out a shiny new Packard sedan, drove home in it. Next morning at breakfast he read in the newspaper that the automobile of his Democratic adversary, Senator Harry Bartow Hawes of Missouri, was being searched for by the police. That, thought Senator Oddie, was too bad. When he went to get his borrowed...
...hundreds of hours of experimental flying-inverted, spinning, high speed-for which he holds the Distinguished Flying Cross. Lieut. Williams last year obtained the backing of air-minded tycoons in New York and Chicago to construct the Mercury, a waspish little projectile with a 24-cylinder, 1,200 h.p. Packard motor, to compete for the Schneider Cup (world speed trophy for seaplanes) at Cowes, England. But the Mercury, too heavy for her lifting power, never got far from the Severn River off Annapolis where she was tested (TIME, Aug. 19). Meantime, to continue nervy Lieut. Williams in his country...
...result of the final contest four prizes will, be awarded: the Lee Wade prize of $50, the Boylston prize of $50, and two Boylston prizes of $30 each. All of the judges of this contest have not yet been picked but Professor Packard has announced that Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, will be one of them...