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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unheralded, unawaited, after a secret start from Berlin, the Bremen dropped from the sky above Dublin on March 26. Three head-erect Germans stepped from her cabin: Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, monocled Prussian nobleman, owner of the plane; Capt. Hermann Koehl, stolid flyer from Berlin, proud possessor of a heroic war record; Arthur Spindler, co-pilot and mechanic, who had been Capt. Koehl's sergeant during the War. They announced themselves on the way to the U. S., determined to be the first to make the hazardous wind-bucking passage East to West...
...James Fitzmaurice it was, and, as befitted an adventurous Irish lad of 30 with a flair for the romantic and a record for the daring, he was head of the Air Force of the Irish Free State. He too wanted to fly across the Atlantic; had, indeed, made a start last September with Capt. Robert H. Mclntosh in the Fokker monoplane Princess Xenia, only to turn back after three hours' weary bicker with the winds...
...macadam, plodded the marathoners of Mr. C. C. ("Cash and Carry") Pyle who has offered $25,000 to the runner making the best time from California to New York. All along the route runners dropped out and went home. Three quit at Chandler, Okla., 1,543 miles from the start. They said they didn't believe Pyle had $25,000. When Oklahoma City gave $5,000 to Pyle, Ralph Scott, onetime manager of Red Grange, attached it. The Chamber of Commerce then refused to give the citizens of Oklahoma City a free look at the plodders, made them...
With the practice held yesterday afternoon at Soldiers Field the University soccer squad started its five weeks spring practice. Although there were practices two afternoon before the vacation the workout yesterday afternoon was the real start of the drill which Coach Jack Kershaw will put his men through in the next-month...
...name he had used before, for his more casual writings: Lewis Carroll. His book was illustrated by Sir John Tenniel, famed Punch cartoonist. In the first edition, the illustrations were so blurred that purchasers were advised to return their copies in exchange for nice clean second editions. From the start, Alice in Wonderland was a huge success. Queen Victoria wrote to Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and asked him to send her some of his other books, whereupon, anxious to preserve the distinction between C. L. Dodgson and the frivolous Lewis Carroll, he sent her A Syllabus of Plane Algebraic Geometry...