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...Mayoral junket. "In the country as a whole," observed the New York Herald Tribune, "there will be many to hope that His Honor will succeed in his mission; but it is a sad commentary on American justice that the freedom of anyone should hinge on a 'stunt...
...flight didn't prove a thing. No stunt flying does. It is silly to say that such flights are made to develop aviation. No flyer would use an experimental device on such a trip. Only the equipment already proved sound is acceptable to a long distance flyer. We didn't advance the mechanics of aviation an inch...
While Tex Rankin was making a new record of 131 consecutive outside loops high above him, Lieut. Alford Joseph Williams went through his upside-down falling-leaf stunt one day last week at the Southern Air Pageant at Charlotte, N. C. Suddenly Lieut. Williams' motor quit. Unable to reach the runway without endangering the crowd, he crashed his plane into an embankment, was not badly hurt. Lieut. Williams' reason for the accident: water in the gasoline...
...biggest of the planes began to fly in a mile-circle around the dirigible, spewing a lengthening white plume of vapor behind her. The trail of smoke dripped downward until it hung like a great white curtain completely concealing the airship. Paramount Sound News men, who staged the stunt, ground their cameras busily. As the Los Angeles climbed above the smoke screen and headed for home, the white vapor continued to drift lower and lower until mild panic occurred in the streets. A man riding atop a Fifth Avenue bus began to gasp and cough. He shouted "Sulphur...
Father has left town. That's his usual stunt when things go a bit wrong and the bettors get after him. But he has arranged a conference with Al Capone over the week-end. He says Al will make things happen the way he wants them. Al and father are the only two dictators left. But I will carry on the Huey tradition for today...