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...pusher airplane which got off the ground. Thereby he became the third man in the world to fly a heavier-than-air craft of his own invention. To get funds for further experimentation Glenn Martin became a showman, developed an aptitude for publicity which stood him in good stead years later. Photographs of his early barnstorming days show him about to take off with a lady parachute jumper, clad in pink tights, perched on the wing. About that time he won medals for an astonishing overwater flight to Catalina Island 28 mi. offshore. Few years later he took Mary Pickford...
Rough, strong-headed Cecil John Rhodes who dug a fortune out of Africa was a strong believer in Anglo-Saxondom. One day he took seriously a conversational suggestion by the late Editor William Thomas Stead of the British Review of Reviews that the British Empire join with the U. S. Republic under a constitution based on the U. S. Cried Rhodes: "I take it-I take it! ... Dear me, how ideas expand. I thought my ideas were tolerably large, but yours have outgrown them. Yes, yes, you are quite right!" So Cecil Rhodes set up a ?1,000,000 trust...
...then-Machado has a nightmare that some day Revolution may overthrow him. To placate his nightmare he is stern with unimportant revolutionaries, kind to important ones who may some day rule in his stead. Last week he pardoned Antonio Mendieta Lizaur, 18, nephew of an important Revolutionist, Col. Carlos Mendieta. In 1932 young Mendieta Lizaur was sentenced to eight years in jail on a charge of planting a bomb in the La Salle College laboratory. Last week he planned to join his uncle and Cuba's famed exile colony in Miami, Fla. (TIME, April 10), to help fan Revolution...
...yard dash, W. D. Hardwick '36 swept through the three heats without being seriously threatened, although a handicap of five feet, one inch served him in good stead. His time was five seconds flat. T. W. Williamson, who is also a Freshman, was only two-fifths of a second behind Hardwick...
...Manchester, N. H., when Costas Tergis, 70, was charged with keeping liquor for sale, his mother Efrosie Tergis, 103, pleaded guilty in his stead...