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Guessers. In the Bellanca seaplane Tradewind, Lieut. William S. MacLaren, former U. S. N. pilot, and his pupil Widow Beryl Hart, 27, transport pilot, took off from New York last week for Bermuda, Azores, Paris. Instead of a radio the plane carried a small cargo of advertised foodstuffs for "the first payload flight to Europe." In "rocking" the plane off the still water the flyers knocked to the floor their sextant - only navigating instrument aboard - but instead of turning back they elected to guess their course. Navigator MacLaren guessed right at first, picked up two steamers about halfway; guessed wrong...
Jaroff. Little Jaroff had once been a pupil of Composer Serge Rachmaninoff. He could write down music from memory when, as in most cases, there was no music to be had. By the time the Don Cossacks were transported to Bulgaria their chorus was so good that it was engaged to sing in a Greek Orthodox Church in Sofia. In 1923 it gave its first formal concert in Vienna, has since sung some 1.800 times throughout Europe, the British Isles, Australia...
Soloist Garland Sirs: On p. 24, Oct. 13 issue of TIME, you print picture of and refer to Elmer Ambrose Sperry, 36: "After he and his teacher had flown together for only three hours the pupil went up solo, record brevity for civilian flying...
...Alumni Association all boys must have, at least, a high school education. Many of these boys go to a private preparatory school burdened with a heritage of allegiance to Harvard or some other institution. It is the school's duty to get the boy into college and frequently the pupil is not mentally capable of passing the difficult requirements which are now the qualifications of a college education...
...Roosevelt Field and Curtiss Airport, L. I. last fortnight included: John J. McNamara, Manhattan streetcar motorman; Abraham Walter Lafferty, onetime Congressman from Oregon; Buffalo Child Long Lance, Blackfoot Indian Chief, one-time cadet in the U. S. Military Academy, lately a cinemactor (The Silent Enemy, TIME, May 26). Another pupil, one for whom the instruction was exceedingly brief (after he and his teacher had flown together for only three hours the pupil went up solo, record brevity for civilian flying), was Elmer Ambrose Sperry, 36, inventor of the artificial horizon for airplanes, youngest son of the late great Elmer Ambrose...