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Carlsen to escorting U.S. Destroyer Willard Keith: "Don't worry. Everything...
From a raised platform at one end of the Cabinet Room in Washington's Willard Hotel, long-legged Harold E. Stassen surveyed the crowd of more than 100 newsmen gathered before him. Then the onetime Republican wonder boy, now the middle-aged (44) president of the University of Pennsylvania, threw his hat into the ring. "With all humility," said Stassen, he was joining Ohio's Robert Taft and California's Earl Warren in open pursuit of the Republican presidential nomination...
Zoll is no mere crackpot. He has a large and powerful organization and ties with other similar groups throughout the country. His literature is being widely circulated, and subscriptions to his periodicals are growing. Among other successful ventures, he helped drive out superintendent of schools Willard Goslin, from Pasadena, California, and encouraged John D. Lynch to propose a Communist Control bill in the Cambridge City Council...
...Willard Custer has never forgotten the day back in 1925 when he had to dive into a barn to escape a big wind roaring through the Back Creek Valley of West Virginia. A few minutes later the roof took off. Custer, who knew that an airplane wing generates lift by moving through the air, wondered what force had raised the roof. After all, he reasoned, the barn had been standing still before the roof soared into space. No engineer, 26-year-old Willard Custer tackled the problem with an open mind...
Last week, at Pittsburgh's Allegheny County Airport, greying Willard Custer was busy proving that his weird contraption can develop tremendous lift. Even when tied to a pole to prevent forward motion, its engines putting out only 800 lbs. of thrust, the 1,100-lb. plane rose slowly off the ground and hovered in perfect balance. And Custer is satisfied that the first brief flights made with his channel wing mark a milestone in aviation. More advanced models, he said, will take off almost vertically, fly faster than a conventional plane using the same power, land like a helicopter...