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...Before he left Washington President Roosevelt greeted World Flyer Wiley Post at the White House. At Hyde Park he had the flying Mollisons, Amy & Captain James, to Sunday dinner with Amelia Earhart and her husband George Palmer Putnam. "Well, well," cried he to his bandaged British guests, "you're both looking fine in spite of your accident." ¶One hundred and eighteen Missourians presented the President with a bay gelding to ride. Naming him "New Deal," he shipped the thoroughbred animal to Hyde Park for his guests' use. ¶To be Minister to Finland the President appointed Tennessee...
However uninspiring, the 280 m.p.h. mark earned an additional $1,135 for Roscoe Turner, the able, gaudy flyer who collected $5,050 last fortnight by winning the transcontinental Bendix Trophy Race. Last week his Wedell-Williams racer flashed off a 249 m.p.h. lap downwind...
Flights & Flyers Via Brewery. While the rival whom he failed to beat was starting after fresh triumphs, hapless Jimmie Mattern was fretting and fuming at Anadyr, the isolated Siberian settlement where he was rescued fortnight ago (TIME, July 17). He had recovered from the effects of two weeks starvation, and he was able to hobble around on his broken ankle. All he wanted now was a chance to complete the first solo flight around the world before Wiley Post could snare that honor too. His Lockheed Century of Progress was a wreck where it had cracked up in the wilderness...
...resentment of famed oldtime flyers at such tactics is illustrated by an incident following Flyer Balbo's triumphant return from South America in 1931. Having been publicly lionized he presented himself at the door of Gabriele D'Annunzio. Italy's air hero of the War, who lost his right eye in combat and was called "II Duce'' before Mussolini. D'Annunzio coldly refused to see Balbo. Afterward his friends asked: ''Why do you snub him? After all he is 'The Eagle.'" Snorted D'Annunzio: "Eagle? . . . Peacock...
That was more than Hugh Herndon, now a hardworking oil salesman for Henry Latham Doherty, cared to stomach. Last week he sued Liberty for $250,000 libel, prepared to prove that he had organized the flight purely as a sporting proposition, that he was a qualified flyer, that he was at the controls about 40% of the time on the world flight and charted all courses, that he claimed no undue credit, that the last contract with Pilot Pangborn was signed six weeks before the take-off on terms agreed to long before...