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...Cabrillo Beach, Calif., Stratonaut Jean Piccard, swimming under water, bumped heads with another underwater swimmer, was treated for cuts & bruises...
...loves of California's old (71), fun-having Senator William Gibbs McAdoo are dancing, flying. In Washington the National Aeronautic Association, of which he is president, held a dance to award its annual "certificates of reward & performance." Senator McAdoo handed scrolls to twelve doughty aviators and Mrs. Jeannette Piccard, first licensed woman balloon pilot, who ascended 57,559 ft. into the stratosphere with her husband, Dr. Jean Piccard...
...Piccard flight barely missed coming to an end at the start last week. After months of waiting the balloon got off the field, two hours behind schedule, in sight of 45,000 spectators including two of the three Piccard children and Henry Ford who had brought 150 moppets in busses to witness the spectacle. When the bag seemed reluctant to rise, airport hands helped by pushing up the gondola. The balloon drifted toward trees fringing the field, seemed certain to crash. Perched in the rigging, Mrs. Piccard frantically threw off lead ballast and the trees were cleared. She climbed inside...
...turtle, Fleur de Lys, came through safely was Mrs. Piccard's first concern. Dr. Jean Piccard, brother of famed ecstatic Stratospherist Auguste Piccard, was tired and the rough landing hurt his foot. He curled up in a blanket and rested. Mrs. Piccard powdered her nose. The sealed barograph went to Washington. The cosmic ray recorders went to Dr. W. F. G. Swarm of Swarthmore's Bartol Research Foundation. A sack of mail went to stamp collectors...
...instruments, discovered a calm, cold layer of air of uniform temperature, beginning six miles up. In 1927 Captain Hawthorne Gray of the U. S. Army Air Corps went up in an open basket to a height of eight miles, died of exposure on the way down. In 1931. Auguste Piccard. pioneer of the sealed gondola, got up almost ten miles. So carried away was he that he made the astounding comparison of cosmic rays to "rain on a tin roof."* His instruments showed an increasing cosmic ray intensity to the top of his ascent. But by that time Professor Erich...