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Because he was not the cinema type, Clarence Duncan Chamberlin nearly lost his chance to fly across the Atlantic, which he did in the Columbia, setting a world's record for long-distance non-stop flight which still stands. Tersely, without dramatics, in his new book Record Flights*, he tells of bitter quarrels with Charles A. Levine, his passenger on the flight to Germany, owner of the ship, who wanted a pilot who would film well when came the time to take the movies...
Transportation is essentially a matter of horses. First the two-legged human horse; then the four-legged horse; then the iron horse; now the air horse. Conspicuous ' among air horses is the Wright Whirlwind motor, which propelled Lindbergh, Chamberlin, Levine,'Byrd, Maitland & Hegenberger, Brock & Schlee across sundry oceans and continents. A tactless person once asked the designer of the Wright motor why he did not receive more glory for making this horse for heroes. The designer's answer was brief: "Whoever heard of the name of Paul Revere's horse?" Not for his modesty...
Clarence Duncan Chamberlin was twice displeased last week by leaks. A fuel pump failed on his Bellanca plane and brought him and his companion Roger Q. Williams down to earth. Soon they went up again, circled, idled, wandered back and forth, wasting time, waiting. A tiny hole drained tiny drops from their gas tank. They came back to earth again 51 hours, 52 minutes, 24 seconds later, defeated by this tiny hole. They failed by half an hour and seven seconds to supplant the German world's record (TIME, Aug. 15) for endurance flying...
TODAY 9.15 O'clock Anthropology 2Peabody Mus. 22 Chemistry B Geol. Lect. Rm. Comparative Literature 6a Bacon-Handley Sever 5 Harmon-Mills Sever 6 Miner-Yount Sever 11 Economics A Mr. Bigelow, O, Y Memorial Hall Mr. Brown, L, P Memorial Hall Dr. Chamberlin, B Memorial Hall Mr. de Chazeau, G, Q, Z Harvard 5 Mr. Johnson, C, H, R New Lect. Hall Mr. Kreps, A, S, BB Harvard 6 Mr. Parsons, I, T New Lect. Hall Mr. Stratton, D, U New Lect. Hall Mr. Taylor, E, F Harvard 2 Mr. Wernette, J, V Memorial Hall Mr. White...
TOMORROW 9.15 O'clock Anthropology 2Peabody Mus. 22 Chemistry B Geol. Lect. Rm. Comparative Literature 6a Bacon-Handley Sever 5 Harmon-Mills Sever 6 Miner-Yount Sever 11 Economics A Mr. Bigelow, O, Y Memorial Hall Mr. Brown, L, P Memorial Hall Dr. Chamberlin, B Memorial Hall Mr. de Chazeau, G, Q, Z Harvard 5 Mr. Johnson, C, H, R New Lect. Hall Mr. Kreps, A, S, BB Harvard 6 Mr. Parsons, I, T New Lect. Hall Mr. Stratton, D, U New Lect. Hall Mr. Taylor, A, F Harvard 2 Mr. Wernette, J, V Memorial Hall Mr. White...