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...experimental bird tried its wings last week. It is the product of the Northrup Aircraft Corp., designed by John Northrup, one-time Lockheed Vega engineer and W. K. Jay, pilot. Their queer bird is all wing-with a 60-h. p. motor and pusher propeller, retractable three-wheel landing gear, a skinny polelike arrangement for flippers and rudders, seats within the wing itself. Indicated performance characteristics of this trial plane are: low landing speed, high speed of over 100 m. p. h., large gliding angle, and little probability of spinning...
Generations of Harvard men have wiped the dust from the platform of the New Lecture Hall and from the window recesses of Harvard 6 with their head gear. The venerable Stetson has sheltered many a worried head from the wintry blast along the Charles and has served in summer time as the proverbial boat-bailer. Stretched to twice its circumference or crunched into a pocket, it has come out smiling--resuming its shapeless shape with a tacit invitation for more mistreatment. In short, the "Harvard hat" has become renowned almost as much for its versatility as for its nonchalant appearance...
...passenger train lumbered past. The driver put the bus in gear, started across the tracks. Those who were still looking out the windows had one short moment of agony. An express train shrieked out from behind the passenger cars, dove into the bus, splintered its thick body like a fruit crate. The wreckage stopped 160 yds. away. The driver and nine of the ten children were killed...
Died. Wilhelm Maybach, 84, oldtime motor maker, inventor of the spray carburetor, honeycomb radiator, change-speed gear, designer of the first Mercedes automobile (1900) ; at Stuttgart, Germany. At his Maybach Motor Works, the motors of the Graf Zeppelin were constructed...
Inside equipment has been altered and refined. Flower vases are now in the Greek manner; many-hued rayon-silk covers the seats; Egyptian sculpture motives have been adapted for dashboard instruments; vivid soda-fountain marble is used for gear shift handles. With the introduction of non-dulling, non-rusting chrome-nickels, there are more cars with shiny, metallic surfaces than ever before. The hood is sometimes of different texture from the rest of the body...