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...less certain of who he is, Comedian Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante in his fattest cinema part to date gets a full-bodied chance to be hysterically himself. He sings several songs, goes into his famed epileptic fits with popping eyes, rudder nose (schnozzle) and satchel-mouth. When he gets thrown out of places, he dusts himself off absently, saves face by a victorious 11011 sequitur. Cinema audiences are shocked into laughter, as were once Manhattan nightclub audiences, when frail-looking (155-lb.) little Durante survives awful batterings, establishes the immortality of the comedian. Born in Manhattan's lower East Side...
...week, while U. S. pilots were soaring over what they like to call "America's Wasserkuppe" (Elmira), Guenther Groenhoff, No. 1 soaring pilot of Germany, took off from the real Wasserkuppe, in the Rhoen Mountains, to ride before a thunderstorm. At about 250 ft. his sailplane's rudder carried away. Pilot Groenhoff jumped but his 'chute had no time to open. He plunged into a wood, was killed...
...vertical wind tunnel through which smoke is poured around a suspended plane model, to expose the tricks of air currents causing the dread tailspin. Photographs indicated that, the prime obstacle to recovery from a spin is the "blanketing" of the rudder by the horizontal tail surfaces...
Like all Fords, the big new plane is all-metal. Its wings spread no ft. From snout-like nose to ear-shaped rudder it measures 80 ft., the fuselage suggesting somewhat the flying-fish appearance of the Curtiss Condor. Inside each wing is built a 715-hp. Hispano-Suiza engine. The third engine, of 1,100 hp., is mounted atop the centre. Four passenger compartments are furnished with two standard Pullman sections each. A smoking compartment could accommodate additional passengers. There are two lavatories, a galley with gas stove...
...somewhat annoyed pilot working the controls to compensate for the shift of weight caused by their movements. Instead they saw Pilot Ralph G. Lockwood comfortably sitting with legs crossed, hands clasped behind his head. The control stick in front of him moved slightly fore & aft, side-to-side; the rudder pedals budged now and then. The big Condor flew smoothly on, directly over a predetermined spot, taking its directions from a small box under the pilot's seat-the Sperry automatic pilot, a device not unlike the Sperry gyroscope which guides vessels...