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...returned to Purnea with a report of "reasonably satisfactory" flying conditions in the Everest vicinity. That was all the Britons were waiting for. The two specially built Westland planes, shipped by boat from England and powered with supercharged Bristol Pegasus radial motors whose propellers had been torqued to provide maximum power development at 13,000 ft., were rolled out at 8:25 on Lalbalu airdrome. Into one stepped Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, Marquess of Douglas & Clydesdale. To focus the motion picture camera, fixed, electrically heated and aimed blind earthward, Col. L. V. S. Blacker, Wartime aviator, climbed into the fuselage...
...brightness is important in that it will attract the Laodiceans, in the college and go some way towards convincing them of the real value and place which the Advocate has in undergraduate life. It will be easier now to broaden the circle of contributors and subscribers both. Whether Pegasus is to undergo a qualitative as well as a physical metamorphosis, cannot yet be told, but the first stage of the change is an undoubted and encouraging success...
...hill on the Whitney place at Manhasset. L. I. Too heavy to ride his own steeplechasers in races, he rides to hounds, shoots, plays squash, flies his own cabin-plane, which was last year nearly destroyed by fire in its hangar at Roosevelt Field. The name of his plane- Pegasus-is the kind of gesture that is fully understandable only to horse people, people who find, as Jock Whitney does, a rich and serious importance in the thundering field, bunched at the start, narrowing to the first thorn fence at Aintree...
...elected president of the Advocate for the coming year at the annual elections last night. The other new officers elected at the same time were: H. C. Thacher '34, of Milton, Business Manager; E. H. Fiske '34, of Boston, Secretary; W. M. Kilcullen '34, of New York City, Pegasus; G. C. Streeter '34, of Concord, Treasurer; H. B. B. Robinson '35, of Red Bank, N. J., Circulation Manager...
After hearing of the despatch Professor Piccard check-reined Pegasus, said that he merely hoped to meet Dr. Einstein, among other eminent scientists...