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...confused with Francesco de Pinedo, Italian round-the-world flyer, is Francisco de Pineda, strong-armed Cuban convict. A confessed murderer serving a life term, Convict de Pineda is the Republic of Cuba's official death-dealer. He rejoices in the title of "Minister of Executions." Last week he was ordered to execute a former friend for a crime in which the Minister of Executions himself had admittedly been an accomplice...
Doolittle. Short and compact is the Army's best flyer, Lieut. James Harold Doolittle. Able was he, in a college boxing tournament at the University of California some years ago, to hold his own-and a little more than his own-against strapping Eric Pedley, eight-goal California poloist (see p. 64). At the Cleveland Air Show last month. Flyer Doolittle flew the wings off a ship, diving at 200 m.p.h. Floating down in his parachute he laughed at the episode and took up another stunting ship immediately. The Army Air Corps has a questionnaire which flyers must fill...
Flight (Columbia). Daredevil marines at the airbase at Pensacola, Fla., and perfect synchronization of dialog and martial sounds make this a very exciting picture. The illusion of reality is strong when the theatre reverberates with roaring airplanes, staccato machine guns. Ralph Graves is a vacillating, blundering flyer who girds up his loins to win Lila Lee. Jack Holt, somewhat aged since his svelte days with the cinema mounted police, is a tough sergeant. Into the picture creeps propaganda about the U. S. |occupation of Nicaragua, especially when the Nicaraguan president is shown talking about U. S. good-Samaritanism. Best shot...
...Wilda Bogert Chamberlin (Clarence Duncan Chamberlin flew the Atlantic two years ago) : "Ladies who want a grand passion had better stick to their businessmen. . . . Children are not for a flyer's wife." The Chamberlins live mostly at hotels. Mrs. Carrie Williams (Roger Quincy Williams flew the Atlantic this summer) : "For a whole year at a time I hardly see Roger at all. . . . The economic conditions of aviation make our living as insecure as everything else. . . . The mother of the baby girl across the street died at her birth, and I've taken a great deal of care...
College for Roman Catholic priests, shouted down the news. Student priests ran to rescue Calvin Petty. Bleriot Cup. Louis Bleriot, early flyer, now head of Bleriot-Aeronautique at Suresnes, France, believes that land planes can attain 750 m.p.h. To excite experiment he offered a Bleriot Cup for fastest land planes, to correspond with the Schneider Maritime Cup. Difficulty of landing planes built for high speeds has retarded land plane design. M. Bleriot suggests that very fast planes keep speeding until they lose their momentum in air, then float to earth by huge parachutes. Treed. Over the Long Island outskirts...