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...friends knew "simply disappeared" two months ago. In 1934 at the high point of his international journalistic career Doletsky signed up Tass with the Associated Press and the United Press in an exchange news arrangement, was feted in Manhattan. Last week The Ural Worker, an obscure newspaper published 900 mi. from Moscow at Sverdlovsk, arrived by mail and Tass men devoured its announcement that Director Jacob Doletsky and his immediate assistants are "Trotskyist bandits who penetrated into the main office of Tass and caused incalculable damage to the Soviet Press...
...even more damage after flying has started than when crawling. Last week Watson Davis, reporting for Science Service, told how some curious person had marked a squadron of 'hoppers with luminous paint, to see how fast the crawling horde was moving. Speed: 2-3 mi...
...mind. Up 4,500 ft., directly over Harris Hill, he guided his ship directly into a thunderhead, rode along inside it for an hour during which he was lost to view. Coming out several miles away, he turned back to the hill, entered another thunderhead, rode it for 21 mi., landed in Pennsylvania. Although a few daring pilots had tried it in previous years, this was the first successful demonstration of riding thunderheads at a Soaring Society meet. To sailplane pilots it represents the most fascinating pinnacle of their sport. To most spectators it is as though an aquaplanist were...
This year's redesigning of the pretzel-shaped Roosevelt Raceway at Westbury, L. I., scene of the 300 mi. George Vanderbilt Cup automobile race, was intended to encourage more thrilling, more dangerous speeding, confine the dull, slow driving to seven turns. But on the simplified course this week's Cup contest resolved itself into a grinding 90-lap parade much like last year's except that this time specially-built German, as well as Italian, cars thundered steadily and safely down the straightaways...
started from Teterboro. N. J. on a 1,200-mi., non-stop solo flight to Miami,' Fla. Headwinds forced him down at Charleston...