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Record. For years Capt. Frederick H. Becker, expert pilot, agent for Laird Airplane Co. (instructor of Capt. Joseph Medill Patterson and the latter's daughter Alicia), had not suffered a serious accident. Last week Capt. Becker flew a $25,000 Laird biplane from Roosevelt Field to Poughkeepsie, N. Y., there overshot the field, cracked up. He climbed into another Laird, reached Roosevelt Field 2 hr. after his first takeoff, struck a soft patch of ground, cracked up. Said Capt. Becker, emerging still unhurt from the second wreck: "Well, I guess that's a record...
...Patterson's Promotion...
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...summary: YALE HARVARD Hedden, g. g. Gulick, Salmon Fields, pt. pt., Robinson Rumsey, c.pt. c.pt., Myerson, Amazeen Flygare, 1d. 1d., Hartnett Reinhardt, Dreyfuss, 2d. 2d., Faude, Marshall Blythe, Jones, 3d. 3d., Brinckley, Dunn Smith, Mallory, c. c., Nido Dodge, Devaney, 3a. 3a., Davidson, Hobbs, Patterson, Cochrane Beggs, Baker, 2a. 2a., Johnson Stevens, 1a. 1a., Glenn Pennell, o.h. o.h., Briggs Warner, i.h. i.h., Murphy, Keck...
Readers of Liberty, nickel-weekly, last week found "JOYRIDE, A Story of Love ?and Wings," by Alicia Patterson. Opening lines: "Laura Withers was bored. Not the casual brand of boredom that smart women like to wear. But a stifling boredom. . . ." Editor's blurb: "... A young writer with experience as a newspaper reporter, known to readers of Liberty through her articles on hunting, fishing and flying. This time she has turned to fiction." Omitted from blurb: She is the attractive socialite daughter of Captain Joseph Medill Patterson, who divides with his cousin, Colonel Robert Rutherford McCormick, management of Liberty, Chicago...