Word: balloonist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Airman Harmon, monied amateur, is by no means unknown to persons less air-unconscious than Baron Cushendun. A contemporary of the Wrights, Curtis, Bleriot, Farman et al., and an ardent balloonist, he now lives in Paris where he attends to the affairs of the International League of Aviators. Most potent of these affairs is the annual presentation of the ornate Harmon trophy for achievement in aviation. Recent recipients of the trophy include...
...Reginald Arthur St. John Leeds, in London. She is granddaughter of Isaac Merritt Singer (1811-75), Oswego, N. Y., perfecter of sewing machines, founder of the New Jersey corporation which now internationally controls 80% of the world's output of sewing machines. Sir Mortimer, her uncle, balloonist and philanthropist, became a British subject in 1900, was knighted in 1920, for having donated a War hospital...
...this year's champion balloonist...
...victory of Pilot Van Orman made him world's champion balloonist for this year. Last month he won the Litchfield Trophy by flying the Goodyear IV from Little Rock, Ark., 780 miles to Petersburg, Va. (TIME, May 10, AERONAUTICS). Boettner and the Akron N. A. A. finished second in that race. Pilot Van Orman also won the Litchfield Trophy last year with a flight of 1,072 miles. His avoidance of the Baltic Sea last week reflected a lesson learned in the Bennett race last year when he and the Goodyear III dropped into the Atlantic, being rescued...
...baby was born in Madison Square Garden, Manhattan. The public that went to see it felt much as Benjamin Franklin did when, to conceal his misgivings, he said to a French balloonist who had urged him to ascend, "Newborn infants are singularly uninteresting...