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This year Auburn presents a new model; the Torpedo Type Speedster. With stainless steel exhaust pipes raking the hood and attractive racing car lines this car is certified to go more than a hundred miles an hour. The regular models are similar to last year, with improvements in riding comfort and a quieter motor. All models have Dual-Ratio control...
...buying the British Government's airplane linen stock and reselling it; and Robert E. Ezequelle, 26, hairdresser; to Port Chester, N. Y. Four months ago Mrs. Ezequelle tried to get her parents' permission to marry, failed. In 1932 Mrs. Ezequelle's sister, Eileen, married Speedster Kaye Don, also without her parents' consent...
...Stunts. Speedster Hawks's flight gave the Air Races audience something to think about, but most of the sensations in store for them were visceral rather than cerebral. Lieutenant Tito Falconi, young Ital- ian stunter who last fortnight broke his own world's endurance record for upside-down flying with a 3 hr., 8 min. flight from St. Louis to Chicago, did a topsy-turvy climbing bank and "dead stick'' dive. Major Ernst Udet, famed German War ace, sent his Flamingo teetering crazily across the field, on the third try neatly snatched a handkerchief...
Scarcely 24 hours later, during the race, Spangler's sleek Miller speedster bounced over Driver Malcolm Fox's car, went hurtling into the racetrack wall. The impact flung Spangler and his mechanic on their faces against the brick causeway. Crushed beyond recognition, Spangler died in a hospital. His mechanic was killed almost immediately...
...stiff west wind, landed at Burbank, Calif. 12 hr. 22 min. later, more than two hours under the westbound record. The pilot was big-framed Roscoe Turner who wears a swagger uniform of his own design and used to keep a mascot lion. The plane was a Wedell-Williams speedster of the type which made the eastbound record (10 hr. 19 min.) last September...