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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Admiral Fiske suggested that torpedoes be shot from airplanes, was ignored, went ahead on his own, a year later took out a patent. Though the British adopted a similar device during the War, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels twice turned down the Fiske invention. In 1921 Rear-Admiral Fiske, retired, saw a photograph of a U. S. Navy plane dropping a torpedo. Said he: "It was clear to me that the Government had deliberately taken my patent...
...airship, received by the U. S. from Germany under an Allied agreement specifying that it be used only for training and experimental purposes, never for war. But the plane-hooking experiment furnished knowledge of speeds, stresses, handling, valuable in the fabrication of the Navy's two huge dirigibles, twice the size of the Los Angeles, by the Goodyear-Zeppelin Co. at Akron, Ohio. The new ships will have built-in hangars in which to store and carry planes...
...Jones title record now stands: British Open twice, U. S. Open thrice (runner-up three times, once tied for second), U. S. Amateur four times...
...present Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard, William Henry Grenfell, Baron Desborough of Taplow, famed afterdinner speaker, chairman of the Pilgrim Society of Great Britain. Baron Desborough has other distinctions quite as noteworthy. In his time he has stroked a crew across the English Channel, swum twice across the Niagara River, been champion swordsman of the British Army, Mayor of Maidenhead, chairman of the Fresh Water Fish Committee. But it is as chairman of the Pilgrims that he is now best known to the world. As such he publicly dines some prominent U. S. citizen nearly once a month...
...Elisabeth Rethberg must grow flowers and swim twice a day. Her house and garden are in Winnetka, near the lake shore. Mme. Rethberg and Giovanni Martinelli will play again La Compana Sommersa (Respighi), which had its Metropolitan premiere last season...