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Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, revealed that Flyer Charles Lindbergh had asked him for letters of introduction to friends in Paris who might "show him around a little." Colonel Roosevelt complied. To Ambassador Myron Timothy Herrick he wrote: "This will introduce to you . . . a real sportsman . . . Captain Lindbergh is modest. He won't ask you to do anything for him. If I were you, however, I would insist upon seeing something...
Yesterday, negotiations with Willie Goodwin, noted Y. M. C. A. flyer, proved unsuccessful, adding another name to the list of those invited who have sent their regrets...
...producing $35,000 per annum, has fame, a mansion, a pretty wife and a son. But the wife plays cards too much. The son is at school. John Garth sickens of being a machine. Convalescing in obscurity, with a beard and scar, after the wreck of a French flyer, he decides not to correct the report that he was killed. He proceeds as Matthew Knowle, the pen-name under which he just published his most successful novel of all, to start a new life "from zero." The Matthew Knowle novel provides funds and Author Owen provides our hero with...
Senator William Henry King of Utah: "My son Paul is an intrepid flyer. Last week as he piloted his plane, a Department of Commerce type, over Boiling Field on his way to Dayton, Ohio, he decided to land. The right wing caught in the grass and spun the plane around; out of the wreckage they dug my son Paul, unhurt...
...Shirley J. Short, for having flown 2,000 hours with valuable cargo in all kinds of weather and with never a serious accident or lapse in schedule, did the International League of Aviators last week award the Harmon Trophy for the best performance in 1926 by a U. S. flyer. To Pilot Georges Pelleder D'Oisy for his long distance flights (France to Africa, Paris to Tokyo) went the 1926 Harmon Trophy for France...