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From the treasury of Fokker Aircraft Corp. of America went last week 400,000 shares of Fokker stock. Purchaser was General Motors which with its purchase (40% of Fokker outstanding stock) gained control. In part payment for the Fokker stock, General Motors turned over to Fokker the capital stock of the Dayton-Wright Co., assets of which consist mainly of Wright Field, Dayton Aviation Field adjoining the famed but abandoned McCook Field (Wartime Army aviation center) and also a large number of aviation patents.* Following so closely upon General Motors' acquisition of a 25% interest in Bendix Aviation Corp...
...enthusiastically received, and, with the outbreak of the War, became suddenly a famed and feared figure. It was the Fokker DVII that brought down many an allied plane; it was Herr Fokker that first synchronized machine guns to fire between whirling propeller blades. After the War, Herr Fokker went from Germany to Holland, then (1923) to this country, of which he will soon become Mr. Fokker, U. S. citizen. Commander Richard Byrd flew a Fokker to the North Pole and another Fokker across the Atlantic; Lieutenants Maitland and Hegenberger flew a Fokker from California to Hawaii...
Chief Justice William Howard Taft last week spoke about education to members of Psi Upsilon, his Yale fraternity, who were convening in Washington. Roundly did Mr. Taft rebuke undergraduates who went to college for social reasons and those who, once there, overstressed the extracurricular...
...retirement of Frederick Freeman Proctor, Manhattan lost its oldest vaudeville tycoon. In the early '90s, Mr. Proctor went into partnership with the late Charles Frohman, and from this agreement resulted the famed old Charles Frohman Stock Company. In 1893, the Proctor 23rd Street Theatre (then up town) inaugurated continuous (10 a. m.-11 p. m.) performances. Before entering the vaudeville business, Mr. Proctor ran an unsuccessful Ten-Twenty-Thirty melodrama chain, and before that toured Europe as a circus acrobat. He was born in Dexter, Me., and began his career in the extremely unhistrionic capacity of errand...
...mother's former lover and he told her she must study his music. And so she abandoned her Traviata, her Mignon, her Carmen, and became instead an Elsa, a Brünnhilde, an Isolde. Soon she became world renowned as the great Wagner interpreter. In 1885 she went to the U. S., to the Metropolitan. City after city paid her tribute. Grover Cleveland and Andrew Carnegie were among her admirers. Still specializing in Wagner, she proved that she could excel in other music. Few singers today have a repertoire of more than 30 roles. Lilli Lehmann knew...