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...Vernon, N. Y...
Diminutive Jimmy Haizlip swooped across the Cleveland finish line to win the Bendix prize, then sped on for a coast-to-coast record. When he set his little plane down on Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y., he had spanned the Continent in 10 hr. 19 min., nearly an hour faster than Major Doolittle's 1931 record. No sooner had Jimmy Haizlip landed than Roscoe Turner roared down on the field, 39 min. behind but still far ahead of the Doolittle time...
Excepting the DO-X, the Hutchinson party was the largest yet to attempt a transatlantic crossing in one plane. Besides the four Hutchinsons there were a navigator, radioman, mechanic, and an RKO-Van Buren cinematographer. On their take-off from Floyd Bennett Field. N. Y., the Hutchinsons?George, 30, Blanche, 28, Kathryn, 8, Janet Lee, 6?were uniformed in brown sport coats, buff polo shirts, suede riding breeches. So were the dolls, Kathryn's Patsy Joan and Janet's Patsy...
Some Japanese beetles which got into Princeton's gardens of pedigreed primroses were major news last week to two international learned bodies?the International Congress of Eugenics meeting in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History and the International Congress of Genetics meeting at Cornell (Ithaca, N. Y.). There are 23,000 primroses in the gardens, whose complete genealogical histories Professor George Harrison Shull sedulously registers. From those histories statisticans deduce laws of heredity which govern primroses, peas, pigs and people. The Japanese beetles were injuring the primroses. Professor Shull obtained a grant-in-aid from the National Research Council...
Died. Professor Edward Everett Hale, 69, author, great-great-nephew of Patriot Nathan Hale; of a heart attack; in Schenectadv, N. Y...