Word: tour
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Field by mistake, then hopped over to Curtiss Field where a crowd awaited him and where William Pawley, president of Curtiss Aviation Co. of Cuba, handed him a cocktail as he stepped from the cockpit. He promptly ordered another, rested, flew back to Long Island to organize a national tour of flying Crusaders...
When the halfway mark of the seventh annual National Air Tour was reached at New Orleans last week, only nine planes remained of the 15 which had started to compete for the Edsel B. Ford Reliability Trophy. Of the six flyers who cracked up or were forced down in Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee, one was fatally hurt. He was Pilot Charles Sugg whose Buhl Bull Pup was first to get away from Detroit at the start of the 6,000-mi. flight but who crashed into a hillside at Yorkville, Ohio. Lieut. Harry L. Russell, winner of the trophy last...
...whiskered but still erect, still spry, remembers also trips he arranged for Presidents Cleveland and McKinley. Best of all he remembers the transcontinental funeral of California's Senator George Hearst, father of the chain-publisher, of which he still cherishes the bills for champagne, wine & whiskey; and the grand tour of the U. S. taken by Princess Eulalia of Spain in 1893, for which he laid out the itinerary. About that time he was called into consultations which led to building the first taxicab? "not for speed, but to eliminate horse-droppings from the street"? in Philadelphia. Since that...
After winning the National championship, Doeg married, set to work on his father-in-law's Newark, N. J. Evening News, announced that he would probably play little tennis in 1931 except to defend his title at Forest Hills. Clifford Sutter last week was winning the Tri-State Tour- nament in Memphis, Tennessee. The other two, Shields and Wood, together with Henri Cochet; John Van Ryn; Jean Borotra, who airplaned back to Paris for business between matches; Bunny Austin, balloon-trousered British Davis Cup player; George Lyttleton Rogers, a big Irishman with a hooked nose; Jiro Satoh, the champion...
...obscure cinemactress named Virginia Rappe. He was acquitted. But, because many suspicious persons thought he might have caused the death of Cinemactress Rappe by attacking her, perhaps with a beer bottle, no cinema producers dared antagonize their audiences by hiring Funnyman Arbuckle. Funnyman Arbuckle tried a vaudeville tour, a Hollywood nightclub. When the nightclub failed, he got a job writing "gags" for Mack Sennett, has more recently, as "William Goodrich," been an assistant director for Educational Film Exchanges...