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...great National Cash Register Co. of Dayton, Ohio, is also President of the National Aeronautic Association. He has just returned from a trip to Europe, undertaken to make the Pulitzer Trophy race next October an international contest. M. Dewoitine, French constructor, will enter a biplane of 500 horsepower with Sadi Lecointe, holder of the world's altitude record (almost seven miles), as his pilot. The Fiat Co. of Turin, Italy, will probably be represented by Pilot Brae Papa. The Belgians will come in if they have any luck at the Beaumont Cup race next June...
...Sadi Lecointe, famed aeronaut, holder of the world's altitude record (TIME, Aug. 13), announced his candidacy for the Chamber of Deputies. He will run on the Radical-Socialist ticket in a Paris constituency...
...ruling of the Federation Internationale Aeronautique (TiME, Nov. 12), an aviator must rise-in order to beat Sadi Lecointe's 36,745 ft. world's altitude record-400 metres (or nearly 1,300 feet) higher than the present mark...
...Story. Harold Prewett met his father for the first time at the age of 21. His mother had died in childbirth and that shock, and the disappointment occasioned by Harold's not being a girl, had so disappointed Papa that he turned over Harold to Aunt Sadi, who made rather a sissy of him as a boy. Conventional, ingenious, inexperienced, Harold was horrified to find that his father's plans for his future included neither a family reunion nor an entry into the paternal cloak and suit business, but that instead his father proposed flinging him into the waters...
...Sadi Lecointe, French airman, has been 923 feet 6 inches farther from Earth than anyone that ever lived on Earth. After elaborate training preparations (TIME, July 23) he broke Lieutenant Macready's (U. S. A.) world's altitude flying record above Villacoublay, France...