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...Alexander of Belfast, Ireland, and Dr. T. W. F. Brown of Ayr, Scotland, holders of the two Blair Fellowships for this year, will carry on the experiments. There are only two Blair Fellowships providing for a year of graduate research in Engineering in an American university, the holders of which are chosen from the whole British Empire. Alexander, a graduate of Cambridge University, and Brown, who graduated from the University of Glasgow, are both specializing in the same field, and have both been working on the same problem, that of perfecting diesel engines for airplane use. They will combine forces...
When he returned to his Malahide Castle in Ireland, Lord Talbot took the little box with him. At Malahide, not long ago, he entertained a friend, one Col. Ralph Isham, who, when he left Ireland, took with him in a suitcase the papers which had once been in the ebony box. The box, now like an old and honored castle made unfit by time for habitation, stayed at Malahide...
...Casey, representative of the American Federation of Labor, much impressed, said, pandering: "We in America boast of our great republic and our great democracy, but we must come to England, Scotland and Ireland to observe pure democracy and to sit down to quench our thirst with anything we like...
Golf. Two English golfer-flyers played 36 holes in one day, nine each in Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales. They played Harlech, Wales; bundled their clubs into an airplane; flew to Silloth, England; from there to Stranraer, Scotland; thence to Newcastle, Ireland...
...hours later the ship was seen from Ireland heading out to sea. Many hours later the Standard Oil steamer Josiah Macy saw an airplane midway between America and England flying westward. Many, many hours later, after the St. Raphael's fuel was long exhausted, came reports of fierce head winds. She must have met heavy fog. But no reports of two men in a monoplane who had set out across the sea or of the Princess behind them down the tiny corridor from the cockpit, sitting surrounded by red hat boxes and a little basket in a wicker chair...