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Over Dayton, birthplace of heavier-than-air craft, General Foulois and his staff of 150 watched the first demonstration of the three-week maneuvers. Flight after flight took the air, darkening the sky, drowning the city's traffic roar. For the first time since the War militia planes, 99 of them from 18 States, and cadets from Kelly Field, took part in regular Army formations. Main event of the first day was a contest for honor position during the maneuvers between the 95th squadron, 20th Pursuit Group (Rockwell Field), and the 36th squadron, First Pursuit Group (Selfridge Field...
Died. Charles K. Harris, 65, rich music publisher, composer of "After the Ball Was Over," ballad popular since the 1890's; in Manhattan; after a three-week illness...
...delegation of Polish war veterans met him at the pier. Newspapers reviewed his political past; emblazoned his most casual utterances. On Oct. 21 in Syracuse, Paderewski begins a nationwide tour of 72 concerts. He will travel as always in a private car (cost: approximately $25,000), take a three-week vacation in February at his 2,600-acre ranch in Paso Robles, Calif. His performances are bound to be uneven. He will bang on the piano unmercifully at times, hit wrong notes, distort the text. But Paderewski has never been a faultless technician. His instrument sometimes magnifies his colossal ideas...
Died. Crowell Hadden, 89, board chairman of Brooklyn Savings Bank, father of President Howard Hadden of Dorland Advertising Agency (Manhattan), grandfather of the late Briton Hadden, co-founder of TIME; after a three-week illness, in Brooklyn...
...cleaning but the oil spurted out. They had to land- with a new endurance record of 553 hr. 41 min. 30 sec., more than 133 hr. better than the previous mark. Followed the frenzied aftermath, no less dizzying to the humble family from Sparta, Ill. than had been the three-week ordeal. With their brothers Walter and Albert of the refueling plane, and Sister Irene who had cooked for them, and their 62-year-old mother, Mrs. Ida Hunter, the flyers were whisked to a roof-bungalow atop the Hotel Sherman, there to blink at unaccustomed splendor, to listen-dazedly...