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During the year the National Museum acquired 296,468 new items. Among these were the trophy awarded in the first Vanderbilt Cup Race 30 years ago, presented by William K. Vanderbilt; the sailplane Falcon, presented by the widow of Sportsman Warren Edwin Eaton (TIME, Dec. 10, 1934); a Maybach dirigible engine; a Mergenthaler linotype; a model of the locomotive De Witt Clinton and train; 108 new textiles; 136 coins; 1,314 stamps. Dancer Sally Rand did not send in her fans, as she has promised to do eventually. Nor was the Wright Brothers' plane forthcoming from London, whither Orville...
...Bendix finish was not the first thrill for the crowd. It had already seen a parachute jumper bashed to death in front of the stands, watched the 34 private planes in the annual Ruth Chatterton air derby buzz in from Cleveland led by San Francisco's rich Sportsman Frank Spreckels, who won by an elaborate score based on flying efficiency, not speed. The cross-country junkets over, the Races settled into the usual four-day shindig of stunting, formation flying "pylon polishing" before the final grand event-the Thompson Trophy Race, No. 1 U. S. closed-course speed test...
...fell in the garden of the Hotel Washington Irving in which six U. S. tourists were staying. Only Spaniards were killed. One, an expectant mother, convulsively gave birth to two dead babes as she expired. Later the Vicomte de Sibour, with a plane borrowed from London's Drygoods Sportsman H. Gordon Selfridge Jr. (TIME, Aug. 17), began taking off tourists, four at a time. To rescue the 19 remaining, General Queipo de Llano sent from Seville a giant German Junkers transport, escorted by a scouting plane. This outfit safely evacuated Granada's U. S. tourists, flying them...
...track for $1,500,000. Promoter Brown jumped at the offer. Because the deal might well have meant the end of Illinois horse racing, Mr. Hertz, whose Reigh Count had won the Kentucky Derby in 1928, asked him to call it off. Brown offered to sell the track to Sportsman Hertz for $2,500,000 if he could raise the money in 24 hours. It took Mr. Hertz just 20 minutes to extract the $2,500,000 from a group of civic-minded Chicagoans like Warren Wright, Otto Lehmann, Silas Strawn, Leonard Florsheim, Charles A. McCulloch...
Died. Roscoe Fawcett, 49, Minneapolis sportsman, brother and publishing partner of Wilford H. ("Captain Billy") Fawcett (Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Jim Jam Jems, Smokehouse Monthly, Hooey); in Rochester, Minn...