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First spectacular race of the meet was the free-for-all for the $15,000 Bendix Trophy, Los Angeles to Cleveland. For that race, as for the Thompson and Aerol Trophy races at the end of the meet, designers had been working for a year, building fat little craft with stubby low wings. Into the California dawn roared five such craft: Clair Vance's Flying Wing, Jimmy Wedell, Jimmy Haizlip and Roscoe Turner in Wedell-Williams Speedsters, Lee Gehlbach in a stubby "Gee-Bee" (Granville Bros.). Over the Mojave Desert Vance had to drop out his cockpit awash with gasoline...
Married. Mrs. Elizabeth Channon Bendix, 33, recently divorced wife of Vincent Bendix (motor accessories); and Lieut. William Adna Blake, 35, U. S. N.; in Manhattan...
...inveighed at from Christian pulpits. Last week there was scant cause for Christian alarm in San Francisco's convention. Few Occidental Buddhists went to it. Not present were converts Dwight Goddard of Union Village, Gesford, Va., or Philosophy Professor James Bissett Pratt of Williams College. Nor was Vincent Bendix, famed aviation and automotive man, more than casually interested, despite the fact that in 1929 he gave Swedish Explorer Sven Hedin $135,000 to purchase two Buddhist temples, one to be rebuilt in Stockholm, the other in Chicago for next year's World's Fair...
...Corp., famed bear and first witness called by the committee after Mr. Whitney. American Brush Co., headed by G. S. Brush, brother of Matthew. Bernard E. ("Sell 'em Ben") Smith, known in Wall Street as "No. 1 bear." W. E. Button &; Co., where Smith makes his office. Ludwig Bendix, no relation to Vincent. Miss M. A. Boyle, who was identified as an associate of Bernard Mannes Baruch. financier and Democrat, but denied she held the account for him. George F. Breen, famed as a "market maker." Harry Content ("most cold-blooded man in Wall Street"). Arthur William Cutten, once...
...after his first take-off Major Doolittle had broken the transcontinental record made by Captain Frank Monroe Hawks a year ago by 1 hr. 8 min. and 53 sec. He drank several glasses of water, hopped back to Cleveland where his previous stop had made him winner of the Bendix trophy race from Burbank, Calif...