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Three days after the Army started to carry the airmail, Lieut. Durward 0. Lowry of the 94th Pursuit Squadron, Selfridge Field (Mich.), took off at 4 a. m. from Chicago for Cleveland. An icy blast whistled over his open cockpit and below he could see the shimmer of deep drifting snow left by the blizzard. When his radio went dead he had to fight by guesswork along an unfamiliar course. Then a chill fog enveloped him and his plane started to fall. Frantically he tore open its mail compartment, began to dump sack after sack over the side. A farmer...
...short life-February to November 1918-and an exceedingly merry one. Probably no other U. S. flying unit in the War managed to have so good a time along with the business of fighting, in which the 95th performed ably if not as spectacularly as Rickenbacker's 94th. The roster of 95 included many a youthful socialite-Seth Low, Sumner Sewall, John Hambleton, Quentin Roosevelt, Sigourney Thayer. In the most trying circumstances they succeeded in maintaining a clublike atmosphere at the squadron bar. Capt. Buckley, a member of the squadron, last year compiled its intimate family lies and friends...
...socially celebrated love match. They departed on a round-the-world cruise in the Warrior. They returned and bought Elbert H. Gary's mansion at 94th Street & Fifth Avenue, Manhattan. He bought her more expensive clothes and jewels (including one of the world's finest emerald necklaces) than are worn by any other woman in Manhattan. He provided her with a house at Palm Beach, built her a magnificent house on Long Island...
...took the Warrior on a round-the-world honeymoon. When the Prince of Wales visited the U. S. in 1919, he was Mr. Williams' guest at Glen Cove, L. I. Last May Mr. Williams bought the late Elbert H. Gary's house at 5th Avenue and 94th St., Manhattan...
...afternoon last week a familiar U. S. scene was enacted for the 94th annual time. The Juniors of Yale College gathered on their inner campus and among them prowled the members of the secret senior honor societies. Hushed with excitement, doubt, hope, anticipation, the candidates stood in strained groups until, singly, the messengers found their men, smote them on the back and uttered the accolade's famed salutation...