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...sturdy Bernt Balchen, nearly bursting out of a tight dinner jacket. There were beauteous Ruth Elder Camp, mop-headed Amelia Earhart Putnam, and the recluse Lindbergh; Armand Loti of the Yellow Bird who came from France to be present that night; Rear Admiral Byrd, Frank Courtney, Harry Connor. (Brock & Schlee, too, would have been there had they not been forced down flying from Detroit to Manhattan.) They were assembled not to be honored, but to honor belatedly Dr. James Henry ("Doc") Kimball of the New York office of the U. S. Weather Bureau, who has never flown...
...Bremen stranded on Greenly Island. Casting aside all pretense of subtlety, Congress then bestowed the Cross in turn on de Pinedo, Coste and Lebrix - all deserving flyers, thinks Writer Allen, but so are a score of others illogically excluded, among them: Balchen, Acosta, Chamberlin, the late Wilmer Stultz, Brock & Schlee, Yancey & Williams, Kingsford-Smith...
...William S. Brock, of Detroit's famed world flying team, Brock & (Edward Frederick) Schlee...
...Brock & Schlee. From Detroit and the routine of commerce re-emerged last week Edward Frederick Schlee and William S. Brock (Schlee-Brock Aircraft Corp ), once famed as world flyers (TIME, Sept. 12, 1927). Stepping into a Wasp-powered Lockheed Vega at Jacksonville Beach, Fla. they set a new record of 31 hr. 58 min. elapsed time for round-trip flight across the U. S. Their route to and from San Diego. Calif, was 800 mi. shorter than that (Roosevelt Field, L. I. to Los Angeles) over which Capt. Frank M. Hawks made his record of 36 hr. 48 min. last...
...Schlee Hurt. Two years ago Edward F. Schlee and William Brock flew eastward across the Atlantic and Eurasia as far as Tokyo. Their fame helped set them up in business at Detroit as the Schlee-Brock Aircraft Corp. sales agents. Last week at Detroit, Flyer Schlee was turning over a plane propeller by hand, to start the motor. He failed to maintain the gingerliness essential for handstarting a plane motor. His motor did not start. The propeller kicked back, struck him, tore flesh, broke an arm bone, concussed his brain. Detroit surgeons found that he had a fair chance...