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Died. Stewart Edward White, 73, sportsman, explorer, author; in San Francisco. In his best-selling novels (Blazed Trail, The Silent Places, The Rose Dawn) he shared with a whole generation of U.S. men & boys his experiences as Black Hills gold-rusher, Wyoming cowpuncher, Hudson Bay camper, African lion hunter...
...masculine names ("Chukker," "Steeplechase," etc.) for their men-some of whom finally took to getting the stuff for themselves. In the $50,000,000-a-year industry, Courtley has become one of the leaders in class, one of the big six in volume of sales (the other five: Seaforth, Sportsman, Shulton, Yardley, Lenth...
Married. George Vanderbilt, 31, multimillionaire sportsman, explorer, big-game hunter, ex-PT boat commander; and Anita Zabala Howard, 41; both for the second time; at Arcadia, the Vanderbilt plantation in Charleston...
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...