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...French horn (musicians call it simply the "horn") is far & away the hardest of all brass instruments to play. Horn-blowers must have sensitive lips as well as stout lungs. Ellen Stone first tried her lips and lungs on a French horn six years ago, in the Teaneck, N. J. high-school band, when she was 16. Says she: "After three days I wouldn't have given it up for worlds. I felt comfortable on it." By now she sounds comfortable on it, but it took some doing. She practiced from morning to night-in the garage whither...
...sensible State of Ohio such harebrained schemes as California's Ham & Eggs, such a treasury-busting law as Colorado's. Safe & sound sat Ohio full of colleges and memories of Presidents. But last week, in spite of its stout constitution and sound heredity, Ohio was scared stiff that it might be going crazy. What scared Ohio was not only a bogey called the Bigelow Plan. Worse was the bogeyman himself-Herbert Seely Bigelow...
Born in Quincy, Ill., son of a Methodist minister, William Bushnell Stout early developed a talent for whittling ingenious gadgets. After studying engineering at the University of Minnesota, he left with $85 in his jeans, grubbed along as manual training instructor, toy designer, vaudevillian, journalist. In 1906 he married a Miss Alma Raymond, with his own deft hands built their St. Paul home and every stick of furniture in it, took a rattlebang honeymoon trip through Europe on a motorcycle...
Back in St. Paul young Stout, long a worshipper of such oldtime airmen as Octave Chanute and Glenn Curtiss, waded ear-deep into aviation. In 1922, heartened by the success of his crude "Batwing," he drafted plans for the first all-metal commercial plane. To some 100 U. S. industrialists went Inventor Stout, asked them for $1,000 each. Said he: "You may never get your money back, but you'll have $1,000 worth...
Many a bigwig forked up the ante, among them Henry Ford, who invited Inventor Stout to set up shop under his wing. As Ford protege, later as an independent, Inventor Stout: 1) built the famed Ford tri-motor plane, 2) organized one of the first commercial airlines (Detroit-Cleveland, Detroit-Chicago), 3) designed the "Scarab," first U. S. rear-engine car on the market, 4) designed one of the first high-speed, gasoline-driven streamliners, 5) netted more than...