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...crutches who came ashore. He was Lieut. James H. Doolittle, U.S.A., test pilot of McCook Field (Dayton, Ohio). Having had no vacation for nine years, he had taken one last May, going down to Chile with a 175-m. p. h. pursuit plane to be first U. S. flyer across the Andes.- Three days after landing in Santiago, he had fallen from a twelve-foot plane-assembling platform and fretted for a month with two broken femurs in plaster. With neither broken leg yet mended, he had fastened clips on his plaster casts to operate the rudder ,bar. After...
...Polar Flyer Richard Evelyn Byrd: "A letter which has followed me over the U. S. since May 15 has reached me. It contained an odd request from one E. R. Davis, advertising man of Tacoma, Wash., for an exclusive contract to erect signs at the North Pole. He offered to pay for this right $1,000 per annum, from the date he constructed his first sign there. I signed the contract instantly, and returned it to Mr. Davis. What manner of signs he may erect if from a bedroom 'hung with soft draperies and filled with cushioned chairs...
...Ouwens, a Dutch hunter, in 1912. (The Duke of Mecklinburg shot a specimen 20 ft. long.) Mr. Burden organized an expedition, including Mrs. Burden, Professor E. R. Dunn of Smith College and one de Fosse, French huntsman. They reached Komodo last June via China. The British flyer, Alan Cobham, stopped at Komodo en route from England to Australia (TIME, Aug. 16 et seq.) and, finding the Burdens there, took them on a reconnaissance flight over the island's jungled, mountainous interior. Sighting the quarry from the air, the Burdens fetched their comrades to the spot, taking along bear-traps...
Nevertheless, the races went on (TIME, Sept. 13). New York National Guardsmen, led by chunky, grinning Lieut. Carl W. Rach of Miller Field, won the National Guard Trophy race. There being no amateur code about flying, Flyer Rach gladly accepted $500 prize money...
Exhaustion numbs pain. Flyer Bettis crawled over the field and fell asleep in the middle of a road, "although it was raining pretty hard." No car came. The road was under construction and most traffic was detoured...