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...fuel-line, clogged by a dead mosquito, nearly cost Sikorsky his life in a forced landing. In 1913 (aged 24) he built and flew the world's first successful multi-motored airplane. His next model, a 4-engined monster which lifted twelve tons, made him famed as the "beardless father of Russian aviation." honored by Tsar and nation. During the War his huge Sikorsky bombers had a reputation for coming back. Of the 73 completed, only one was shot down in the course of 400 flights into enemy territory. From a Sikorsky bomber was dropped the first...
Jacobites to the end, the Macleans of Duart were dispossessed from the Isle of Mull in 1691. Eighty years ago Sir Fitzroy, then a beardless youngster, sailed out from the mainland on a yachting cruise with his father. They passed Mull. On a headland jutting into the water were a few tumbled walls-all that remained of his ancestors' castle. Later young Fitzroy joined the army, got a commission from the Duke of Wellington, fought the Russians at Sebastopol. He served in Canada for three years, and as a good Maclean he was always careful with his money...
...which could be removed, leather for the boots and belts. Every gaiter, buckle, knapsack was exact. Even the tiny buttons were embossed with the French eagle. He trimmed the mustaches according to each regiment's custom, gave fair hair to the northern troops, black to the southerners. The beardless drummer boy wore wooden shoes, striped trousers, hat like a modern U. S. Army fatigue cap. The sapper of grenadiers of the Imperial Guard wore a big black fur busby, a forked beard, white gaiters, a pure white cassock under a black white-cuffed jacket, crossed white bandoliers. He carried...
...tradition that they will continue indefinitely? And, if the non-collegiate public has lost its taste for college games, won't the professional teams, which are gaining in popularity, keep the sport very much alive? No, football itself is not done. It is only the insane hoopla about beardless halfbacks that is evaporating. And its disappearance should have a sobering, wholesome effect on our colleges. --Boston Herald...
Sitting at home beside his radio the eager, beardless young general heard Mexico's well-drilled Congress unanimously elect him Provisional President to fill out the term expiring Nov. 30, 1934. An hour prior General Calles had thoughtfully sent over to his young favorite the emblem of Presidential power in Mexico: the Grand Cordon of green, white and red ribbon embellished with the Eagle grasping the Snake...