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Sidelights In The Career Os Will Rogers—American Ambassador Os Good Will
The Man Who Made the World Laugh Pictured in Early Days Closing Days of Eventful Career of Will Rogers
Will Rogers, mourned “American Ambassador of Good Will," first won feme as a humorist as the cowboy sonologist with the famed Ziegfeld
Follies as pictured on left. He was an enthusiastic airman for years and is shown at top making a flight with Lr;g. Gen. Hilly Mitchell, then
Assistant Ch-f of Air Service Lower, Rogers is photographed on location for a cowboy him comedy, meanwhile writing his daily comments
for millions of American readers. At the right the famed comedian is seen as a polo player, a game he enioved until his death
(Central Press)
Highlights In The Career Os Wiley Post— First To Circle World By Air Alone
w ,u °iw frtmnl.ted First Solo Flioht Around World Stratosphere Lured Hero of Two Round-the-World Flights
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When Wiley Post returned to Chickasha, Okla., America’s air hero, on
completion of his solo world flight, his aged mother, Mrs. W. F. Poet,
was first to greet him. Now the famed flier’s body is being shipped from
Alaska for burial in the family plat* (Central Frees)
HENDERSON, (N., C.J DAILY DISPATCH, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1933
Rogers a Veteran Airman
A doseup of Will Rogers as an air passenger. Though the farm d comedian
was an air enthusiast for years he never learned to pilot a plane.
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. ... , „ , Rnni»vclt as shown top, and other dignitaries at the Democratic National C0m,.;,,
"The man who made the world laugh convu • of j; steners throughout the country. Below at left Rogers is shown with Wiley P o >
tion in Chicago as he broadcast his . , i ower rig ht he is seen with his wife at a recent Los Angeles sports event. At the right tt
Os hi. latest Sta* as he foad.ed Shlr.etr Tent.U. „ ardeat
, ... .. c. c , man tn flv around the world alone and the only man to twice circumnavigate the globe by *ir, Po *J
Not satisfied to rest on his honors a* U- I Brst: m y .fcown at left in his stratosphere flying garb, at right *ith President HmJ
engaged in a series of stratosphere *T pas Wj M . hb new p l anc at Lo» Angelo. ju,t before leaving tor •
and Harold Gaily, his navigator, on completion his world Hi. wa , Rosar * ' >
T'tvic Coincident
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Mary Rogers
Mary Rogers, actress daughter of
Will Rogers, was appearing in
"Ceiling Zero” at Skowhegan,
Maine, summer theater when she re
ceived news of her father’s death in
{Uaskan pi ae crash. The play
features ft fatal plane crash.
(Central Press)
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Will Rogers (left), and Wiley Post, pictured just before leaving Seattle for Alaska mi