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...Harvard Flying Club won places in three races at the opening of the Worcester Airport yesterday. A crowd of 40,000 people saw the races. A. U. Pabst 3L., starting from scratch in the lightplane handicap race, finished third, and won a cash prize of $125. Crocker Snow '26 flew in the handicap race for all planes of high horse-power, and finished fifth. In this same race, Fisher Ames 2L., flying his own plane, finished third. Ames, who is Vice-President of the Flying Club, also entered the race for high powered commercial craft with his own plane...
...Munich airport Baroness von Maltzan, former Fraulein Edith Gruson, daughter of a wealthy Magdeburg steel manufacturer, and her little daughter, Edith, were waiting for the arrival of husband and father. An official approached, sad news in his eye. The Baroness, with superb self-control, sensed the full import of the messenger's news. "Tell me," said she, "is he killed?" And without an answer being given she knew...
Since its arrival at the East Boston Airport last Tuesday, the machine, a biplane, has been in the Aero Show in the Mechanics Building, where repairs to the motor during show hours attracted especial attention...
Diplomats, soldiers, scientists stood at Henry Ford's Detroit Airport peering upward at round blobs in the sky. Official Starter Edsel Ford had sent away 15 balloons in the 16th annual Gordon Bennett trophy race. The U. S. and Germany each had three balloons; France, Belgium and Italy two each; England, Spain and Switzerland...
...becoming a great figure in the world of opera & orchestra. At the threshold of his career he failed to obtain an expected orchestra engagement and turned from flutes to flying ships. After a curious itinerant career as a stunt flyer; advertising flyer; flying scout for the Prohibition service; small airport proprietor; he sought backing for a New York-to-Paris flight this year. He failed. Soon he appeared in Brunswick, Ga. To the merchants of that town he put his proposition. He would fly a plane alone to Rio de Janeiro, 4,600 miles, farther than any man had flown...