Word: recordings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Atlantans, proud of the Woodruff record, point out that at 33 he was the youngest president of a large U. S. corporation, at 40 holds a position entirely unique. Watching his method of handling men, which consists of issuing few orders, making subordinates think, they call him "more thoroughly representative of the new style southern industrial leader than any other...
Engaged. Philip Aaron ("Phil"') Edwards, 24, Negro, onetime captain of the New York University track team, joint holder of the American intercollegiate record for the half-mile and member of the 1928 Canadian Olympic Team at Amsterdam, the son of a British Guiana magistrate, to Miss Edith Margaret Oedelschoff, 19, German, of Weehawken...
...clambered out of the machine, then scrambled for a barricade, for threatening natives were running at them. The aviators gestured placatingly. They tried to pantomime that they were Frenchmen. Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Jacques Bellonte, that they had flown from Paris in an attempt to make a non-stop record over Europe and Asia, and that the exhaustion of their gasoline and oil had forced them to land willy-nilly. The Chinese insisted that they were Russian spies. Was not their plane painted the red of the Soviets? And away they took the Frenchmen 40 miles to Tsitsihar, town...
Later Dieudonne Costes and Maurice Jacques Bellonte sent a despatch claiming that between Paris and their Manchurian stop they had covered approximately 6,160 miles, thus surpassing the 4,500-mile, Italy-to-Brazil non-stop record...
Solo Endurance. Vern Speich, Santa Ana, Calif., automobile salesman, kept his plane up 38 hrs., 48 sec. at Long Beach, Calif., last week, thus breaking the non-refueling solo endurance record (36 hrs., 56 min., 36 sec.) of Lieut. Herbert J. Fahy...