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Endurers. At Roosevelt Field, N. Y., Robert Black and Louis Reichers landed in their 13th day of endurance flying, hinted that rivals had tampered with their fuel. At St. Louis, Forest O'Brine and Dale ("Red") Jackson, former record holders, approached their 400th hour in their attempt to beat the Hunter brothers...
...Rapidan camp for a Friday-to-Monday week-end went the President and 17 guests. Discussed: municipal problems of Washington. It was hot. The President climbed a lookout tower to watch forest fires along the tindery blue ridge...
...added him to his camp crew as chief bookkeeper, surveyor, inventor, doctor, and general efficiency expert. And Johnny Inkslinger was very glad to meet Paul Bunyan, too, despite that hero's carelessness in mistaking the great scribe's supply of fresh-sharpened pencils for a pine forest and having them all chopped down. One of the very first reforms that Johnny Inkslinger proposed in Old Paul's camp economy was to diminish the loggers' rations and build some ships and send the surplus produce from Old Paul's great supply farms to European markets...
...Forest, President of the Institute of Radio Engineers and vice president of General Talking Picture Co., vacuum tube inventor, announced he would move his research laboratory to Hollywood on Jan. 1. Said he: "In Hollywood I expect to do better work and more...
...into a peasoup fog. Unable to climb over it, he dove his Fleet biplane to 2,000 ft., crashed into the treetops near Bennington, Vt. Painfully injured. Goldsborough's companion, Donald Mockler, publicity-man for Richfield Oil Corp. tried to lift the wreckage that pinned Goldsborough, then stumbled through forest and swamp for five hours to summon help. Twelve hours later searchers located the plane, extricated Goldsborough. They carried him eight miles to Bennington where he died next day?his 20th birthday...