Word: sportsman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Howard Hughes had one consolation: he had predicted it. After test-taxiing the XF11, a fast, twin-fuselaged, Lightning-like photo reconnaissance plane he designed and built for the Army, the manufacturer-sportsman commented: "I wouldn't worry about those rudders if I were sure an engine wouldn't conk out. If that happened, I don't think I could keep the plane in the air." Two days later he took off on the maiden test flight; within an hour an engine conked out. The plane crashed, sheared the roof off one house, ricocheted a block further...
Rich, young Sportsman Vicente Mamano Neto and two friends decided to cash in on experience gained in wartime anti-U-boat patrols, started a service on the lucrative Rio-São Paulo run. The up & coming Santos-Dumont company wasted no time, flew passengers the day they got their first plane, bucket seats...
...Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt and their clothes did splendidly in a preview of the first postwar silly season (June to September). A sudden spring tide of pressagents' panegyrations washed them each to glory: the multimillionaire sportsman to a place on the "best-dressed men" list of the Custom Tailors Guild of America; wife Jeanne to a place on the Fashion Academy's "best-dressed women" list. Jeanne, an heiress in her own right,* was one of those the Academy acclaimed for somehow managing to dress well on a budget...
...dapper Sportsman Fred Weiszmann intended to play it safe. Until he learned whether the hitherto apathetic U.S. public would take to soccer, he would stay on as assistant headwaiter at Chicago's popular Wrigley Building restaurant...
Married. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney-Henry, 20, well-fixed granddaughter of Sportsman-Socialite-Financier Harry Payne Whitney and Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney; and Luis Gabaldoni, 32, Peruvian businessman and vice consul in New York; in Manhattan...