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...corporations, treasurer of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment, longtime president of the Boys' Club of New York, husband of smart, vivacious Repealist Pauline Morton Sabin; of cerebral hemorrhage, after long illness; in Shinnecock Hills, L. I. His varied, steady-climbing banking career began when he, a flour mill clerk, was given a job by an Albany bank so he could pitch for its baseball team. France and Belgium decorated him for his Liberty Loan work. An ardent golfer, he was treasurer of the U. S. Golf Association...
...sacks white flour...
Anyone who ever saw Herbert Emerson ("Spud") Manning, 25, make a parachute jump would have predicted violent death for him. His specialty at fairs and air meets was the delayed opening. From a plane three miles high he would plummet down, trailing flour like a comet's tail, until within 1,000 ft. of the ground, then jerk his 'chute open. His most famed jump occurred a year ago in California when he fell 16,000 ft., jerked his ripcord at 500 ft., landed in an orange tree. An English jumper beat that record for altitude (he dropped...
Jumps. H. E. ("Spud") Manning hugged a 25-lb. sack of flour in his arms when he baled out at 14,000 ft. in one of his famed delayed-opening parachute jumps. His tail of flour against the pale blue sky made him look like a comet's ghost as he plummeted down a full two miles. Not until he was within 1,000 ft. of the ground did he jerk his rip cord, break his 147-111.p.h. fall, soar down to a perfect two-leg landing in midfield...
...Slum Clearance conference was indeed TIME-worthy. To it went Editor Harold Sinley Buttenheim of American City Magazine; President Appleton P. Clark Jr. of Washington Sanitary Housing Corp.; New York's Ralph Borsodi, economist who grinds his own flour at home and whose plan for making the unemployed produce their own necessities was adopted last autumn in Dayton; Howard Whipple Green, Cleveland statistician, author of exhaustive studies of Cleveland's population and buying power; Eugene Henry Klaber of American Institute of Architects; Cincinnati's able Lawyer Alfred Bettman, vice president of the National Conference on City Planning...