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...helped raise $100.000 to start an aircraft factory. First U. S. built Sikorsky (S-29) carried two grand pianos from New York to Washington, flew half a million miles before being purposely crashed in a Hollywood thriller. More famed was S-35, which Sikorsky built in 1926 for Capt. Rene Fonck, French Ace of Aces, who planned a non-stop flight to Paris. Loaded with nearly 14,000 Ib. of gasoline, S-35 crashed on the takeoff, incinerated two mechanics. Newshawks saw Sikorsky weep...
...school has announced that "nearly all the faculty were trained in the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and have taught at Harvard." Among the members of the teaching staff will be Rene E. Clark 2G as instructor in French, Dr. Gerald F. Else 4G as professor of Classical Languages, Lawrence C. Jenks 3G as professor of Mathematics, Dr. Joseph M. Odiorne, assistant in Zoology at Harvard as professor of Biology, and Dr. Clifford R. Shipton '26 as professor of History...
Otto Eugene Schoen-Rene, of New York, N. Y., to be Assistant in English. A.B. 1930. Taught at St. Mark's School...
After a two-year fight, Comte Rene A. de Chambrun, great-great-grandson of the Marquis de Lafayette, was admitted to the New York State Bar. Lawyer de Chambrun, Paris-born, was banned from practicing his profession because he had never been naturalized as a U. S. citizen. To prove U. S. citizenship de Chambrun cited before the Court of Appeals a law passed by Maryland's General Assembly in 1784: "The Marquis de Lafayette and his heirs male for ever shall be ... taken to be ... citizens of this State...
Directed in the vivid, light style of Rene Clair and Ernst Lubitsch, the French film is a musical romance which manages to maintain its delightful simplicity and humor, although it does show a definite Hollywood influence by including a chorus scene of the standard Busby Herkeley type. Excellent photography and really amusing sequences more than atone for the nature of the plot, which is too juvenile to justify elucidation...