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...Learned to Fly," ordered it to be inserted in the September issue. The name of the authoress was Marvel Crosson. Last week as some 1,600,000 copies of The Country Gentleman were about to appear, Aviatrix Crosson was killed while flying from Santa Monica, Cal., to Cleveland in the Women's Air Derby (see p. 50). Obviously unable to recall the issue, Editor Rose waited to see what readers would say about the curiously ironical words with which the story ended...
Newport Casino Invitation (Newport, R. I.)?singles, William Tatem Tilden II of Philadelphia; doubles, George Lott Jr. of Chicago & John Doeg of Santa Monica...
From six points on the rim of the U. S., also from Canada, hurried flyers to the air races and show at Cleveland this week. Most conspicuous was the Women's Air Derby from Santa Monica, Cal. After considerable squabbling (TIME, June 24), 19 women set out, including Marvel Crosson, Ruth Nichols, Ruth Elder, Amelia Earhart, Louise McPhetridge Thaden, Phoebe Omlie, Thea Rasche. The second day out Miss Crosson crashed fatally. Others had accidents, which they attributed to sabotage (not confirmed by investigators) or got lost. Thirteen ended the race, Ruth Nichols cracking up only 130 miles from...
...women's singles, Sarah Palfrey of Brookline, Mass.; women's doubles, Edith Cross & Mrs. Lawrence A. Harper of California. National junior (at Culver, Ind.)-Singles, Keith Gledhill of Santa Barbara, Cal.; doubles, Gledhill & Ellsworth Vines of Pasadena. National boys'-Singles, Jay Cohn of Santa Monica, Cal.; doubles, Cohn & C. R. Hunt of San Francisco...
Contractees were the Boeing Airplane Co. of Seattle; Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. Inc. of Garden City, L. I.; Douglas Aircraft Inc., of Santa Monica, Calif.: Fokker Aircraft Corp. of America, of Hassbrouck Heights, N. J.; Berliner-Joyce Aircraft Corp. of Baltimore...