Word: woolsey
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock Friday evening, the eve of the Harvard-Yale gridiron contest the Harvard University Instrumental Clubs, combined with the Harvard and Yale Glee Clubs, will appear in New Haven in their first concert of the current year. The concert will be give in Woolsey Hall and will be followed by a dance...
...young dentist, Dr. Arthur Woolsey, of Elizabeth, N. J., in despair, wrote that on his own stationery last week. And he wrote this: "I have everything mortgaged to the limit and not a thing of my own except that which is due me at the office. If that had come in when it was due this could have been avoided. My only message to the dentists with whom I have worked is to work for cash only; credit will only bring trouble...
...four planes formed a diamond over the landing field at Palomar. Major Dargue, piloting the New York at the head of the squadron, signaled to break up close formation for landing. Captain Woolsey, in the Detroit in number three position, and the New York, number two, turned out simultaneously, Woolsey to the left, Dargue to the right. The New York* continued as did the St. Louis, slightly higher and to the rear. The Detroit turned upward and away from the New York several hundred feet; then turned back to the right and went into a slight dive...
...that instant Woolsey was above the New York and probably did not see it. The Detroit started a gentle gliding turn slightly toward the New York's left wing; the ships telescoped and began to spin...
Thus simply, at the moment of least alarm, tragedy overtook U. S. Army flyers sent to loop a sister continent. Major Herbert A. Dargue and his relief pilot, Lieut. Innis C. Whitehead leaped free and their parachutes saved them. Captain Clinton F. Woolsey fell free too late. Lieut. John W. Benton burned, his cremation starting in midair. South America's good will, which the Army flight had been planned to stimulate, turned to pity, horror...