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Died. Charles Furnas, 61, the Wright brothers' first air passenger; in Dayton, Ohio. Mechanic for the brothers in 1908, he was taken up several times by Orville. He never learned to fly, after 1908 never went aloft again...
...four 2,000-h.p. Wright Duplex Cyclones that will drive Glenn Martin's "No. 170" were on hand; so were the huge props. It would not be long before Martin's 170, called by the Navy XPB2M-I,- would be ready for her first trip aloft...
Reflection of Mirror atmosphere in recent months was the case of a regular Guildsman who wrote a sympathetic article on the anti-Communist best seller Out of the Night. Next day as he seated himself at the copy desk, a fellow writer held aloft a sheet of copy paper for him to read. On it was scrawled in big letters...
...Aloft in Warspite's eccentrically huge superstructure, a little knot of men was tense. They felt not just the tightness that comes over all sailors at sea after dark-but now the exhilaration of men about to give battle...
...opens each year's course by shouting fiercely, "The less work you do in this course, the better." Students like to mimic his lecturing methods. Once, at a Yale Lit dinner, a student representing Professor Berdan came in with a load of books, and raising one aloft, announced: "Gentlemen, this is an exceedingly rare edition. There are only two copies in America left." Thereupon, in the professor's best dramatic classroom manner, he ripped the book in half...