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From Budapest to Rome for the first congress of transocean flyers, flew Capt. George ("Yurga") Endres in the Lockheed Justice for Hungary which he flew from the U. S. last year. Just before the take-off Capt. Alexander Magyar, his transatlantic flying companion with whom Capt. Endres later quarreled, withdrew from the Rome jaunt. In his place went Capt. Julius Bittay. Arrived over Littorio Airport the plane went into a sideslip, unaccountably crashed. Before the eyes of other famed airmen gathered to greet them, Flyers Endres and Bittay died in flames...
...York's Floyd Bennett Field, wobbled from side to side, finally skidded into the soft grass and wrecked its landing gear. Out of the cabin crawled two rueful young men with 80? in their pockets and a strange story to tell. They had just attempted a take-off "to Portugal." Both men-Frank Gushing and Andrew Soos Jr.-were sailors absent without leave from the U. S. S. Louisville which fortnight earlier had sailed for Guantanamo Bay. Neither was a licensed flyer, although Gushing claimed to have soloed. To bring fame to themselves and their ship, they had planned...
...TELL YOUR FRIENDS FROM THE APES - Will Cuppy - Liveright ($1.75).* Publisher Liveright announces that there are 1,723 good laughs in this book. Translated into plainer English that means about 23. In short, How to Tell Your Friends From the Apes is an unusually funny, humorous book. A take-off on zoologists, anthropologists, the human race in general, this solemnly annotated guide book makes surprisingly good sense...
...quiet had been the Esa's take-off that New York was startled to hear it was so near. But storms were still raging up & down the coast. Airports turned on beacons; anxious German, Danish and Portuguese consuls waited, wondered...
...splash of mud at Cleveland. There were thunderstorms between Cleveland and Newark. He crouched in his cockpit while the rain scarred the edges of the wings. When he landed his tiny secretly built Laird biplane in Newark, 11 hr. 16 min. and 10 sec. after his first take-off Major Doolittle had broken the transcontinental record made by Captain Frank Monroe Hawks a year ago by 1 hr. 8 min. and 53 sec. He drank several glasses of water, hopped back to Cleveland where his previous stop had made him winner of the Bendix trophy race from Burbank, Calif...