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...pace throughout most of the All-American Air Derby (TIME, Aug. 4) finished an easy winner at Detroit last week, took the $15,000 first prize. His elapsed time for the 5,541-mi. flight around the continent: 43 hr. 35 min. 30 sec. Lowell Bayless, flying a Gee-Bee biplane, came second, four hours slower; Charles Meyers in a Great Lakes, third. Eight of the original 18 starters were forced to abandon the race...
...Sioux City, Iowa, H. J. Dagle broke his back several months ago, lived in a plaster cast. Last week he was stung on a vein by a bee, died in 20 minutes...
...Allen, onetime (1919?23) Governor of Kansas, then became editor of Hearst's new Omaha Bee-News, but never went to Omaha to reside...
...into the officer's job he finds that he has to do the same thing in much the same way. In the end he sacrifices his own life for another flyer's, but his motive is strong enough to make the tragedy legitimate. Except for a singing-bee at the aviation base, when the officers sit around with glasses and salute death vocally, and an impossible scene in which Barthelmess is rescued from behind the enemy lines, The Dawn Patrol is exciting. It contains some of the best air photography ever made. Good shots: German troops shot down...
...ceremony in August. The proposed dedication: "This peak is dedicated, by grateful fellow citizens, in recognition of the public citizenship of Bernarr Macfadden, apostle of health, in his spectacular influence in arousing the nation to the benefits of life in nature's great outdoors." Proudly reported the Sacramento Bee last week-"CLIFF WILL BECOME HEALTH MONUMENT. . . . About 200 New Yorkers will attend the rites...