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...Louis. On his way up, in the hairy days of aviation, Jimmy Doolittle was known to most people as a stunt man, a racer, a one-shot artist who kept on coming back but never seemed to do much but fly his planes. This illusion did not prevail among his fellow airmen. Many of them considered him the finest pilot in the air. They knew that Jimmy Doolittle could do beautiful things with an airplane. But they also knew him as a painstaking, brainy man of parts, who had a sound knowledge of aerodynamics, a Doctor of Science degree from...
...Still a first lieutenant in the peacetime Army, Doolittle resigned in 1930 and went to work for Shell Oil Co. In St. Louis he took off in a new Travelair racer, lost an aileron while he was testing the ship only 100 feet above the airport. Doolittle wangled the ailing plane to 300 feet and dropped out. His parachute broke his fall when he was ten feet off the ground. Then he walked around in circles, staring intently at the ground. "Looking for my rip cord," he explained. His elder son, Jimmy Jr., then ten years old, pointed...
...Gaunt & gainly Gunder Haegg, Sweden's No. 1 foot racer: a 2,000-meter run in 5 min., 16.4 sec.; clipping four-tenths of a second off the accepted world's record set by Kansan Archie San Romani in 1937; at Malmö, Sweden. It was the fourth time in three weeks that Haegg had set a new world's record. He ran 1,500 meters in 3:45.8, a mile in 4:06.2, two miles in 8:47.8. Hailed as another Nurmi, Haegg has been invited to tour the U.S. next winter...
Died. William James Tatem, Lord Glanely, 74, Welsh shipping tycoon, famed breeder and racer of horses; killed by a German bomb; in a southwest English coast town. He founded one of the world's greatest stud farms, at Exning, once had more horses in training than the Aga Khan and Lord Derby, won more than 500 races. His Grand Parade won the Derby...
...Tuttles of Tahiti (RKO Radio) are an exceptionally lazy family. Trying to get them to work is like trying to interest a six-day bicycle racer in a five-day week. Their laziness is encouraged by the man from whom they inherited it: their improvident, prolific, lovable father Jonas (Charles Laughton), South Seas remnant of the Massachusetts Tuttles...