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25-726: In 1920, publisher Ralph Pulitzer sponsored the Pulitzer Trophy Race and the Pulitzer Speed Trophy for military airplanes at Roosevelt Field , Long Island , New York , in an effort to publicize aviation and his newspaper. The races eventually moved to Cleveland , in 1929, where they were known as the Cleveland National Air Races. They drew the best flyers of the time, including James Doolittle , Wiley Post , Tex Rankin , Frank Hawks , Jimmy Wedell , Roscoe Turner , and others from

50-515: A comic strip story in a day-to-day serial format, and is also considered to be the first police strip. Kahles' Sandy Highflyer, the Airship Man (1902–1904) is considered the first aviation comic strip. The cartoonist and comics historian Ernest McGee called Kahles the "hardest working cartoonist in history, having as many as eight Sunday comics running at one time (1905-1906) with no assistants to help him." Clare Victor Dwiggins joined

75-613: A full-time position with the World . Outcault's Yellow Kid character made his debut in the World on January 13, 1895. The kid appeared in color for the first time in the May 5 issue in a cartoon titled "At the Circus in Hogan's Alley". Outcault weekly Hogan's Alley cartoons appeared from then on in color, starring rambunctious slum kids in the streets, in particular, the bald kid, who gained

100-740: The Confederate States of America . Pulitzer was educated at St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts . He graduated from Harvard University . Pulitzer served as the publisher of the New York World until 1931, when it was acquired by E. W. Scripps Company . He subsequently served as the vice president of the Pulitzer Publishing Company, which published the St. Louis Post-Dispatch . Pulitzer

125-670: The Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. His funeral was held at St. Thomas Protestant Episcopal Church. He was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, in the Bronx. His widow died at her home, 812 Fifth Avenue , on February 24, 1974. Press Publishing Co. The New York World was one of the first newspapers to publish comic strips, starting around 1890, and contributed greatly to the development of

150-515: The Reno National Championship Air Races , taking place in mid-September. The Cleveland National Air Show also began in 1964. National Air Races were run by U.S. Air Race, Inc. from 1995–2007. The company was founded by famed World Race Gold Medalist Marion P. Jayne and after her death from cancer in 1996, was run by her daughter Patricia Jayne (Pat) Keefer, 1994 World Race Gold Medalist. Under Keefer's leadership,

175-729: The Thompson Trophy Races which started in 1929; a closed-course race where aviators raced their planes around pylons; and the Bendix Trophy Race , the "transcontinental air race," across most of the USA starting in 1931. In 1929, a Santa Monica, California to Cleveland, Ohio route was started for the Women's Air Derby (nicknamed the "Powder Puff Derby"), featuring well-known female pilots such as Amelia Earhart , Pancho Barnes , Bobbi Trout , and Louise Thaden . Thaden

200-452: The World in 1897. He created a wide variety of gag panels. In 1904, after winning $ 3,000 at the racetrack, cartoonist George McManus went to New York City and a job with the World , where he worked on several short-lived comic strips. One of them, The Newlyweds (later renamed Their Only Child ) is considered one of the first comic strips to depict the lives of the typical American family. Gene Carr and Milt Gross were also notable for

225-453: The World published a number of comic strips from the late 1890s until the paper's 1931 demise. The prolific cartoonist C. W. Kahles was responsible for numerous comic strips for the World . He is credited as the pioneer of daily comic strip continuity with his Clarence the Cop , which he drew for the World beginning in the latter 1890s. It introduced to newspapers the innovation of continuing

250-600: The American comic strip . Notable strips that originated with the World included Richard F. Outcault 's Hogan's Alley , Rudolph Dirks ' The Captain and the Kids , Denys Wortman 's Everyday Movies , Fritzi Ritz , Gus Mager 's Hawkshaw the Detective , Victor Forsythe 's Joe Jinks , and Robert Moore Brinkerhoff's Little Mary Mixup . Under the names World Feature Service and New York World Press Publishing

275-665: The Front. Pulitzer was an active supporter of the National Air Races . He sponsored the Pulitzer Trophy Race to encourage higher speed in landplanes. He was also a big-game hunter. Pulitzer was married twice. On October 14, 1905, he married Frederica Vanderbilt Webb (1882–1949), the daughter of Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt Webb and William Seward Webb . Before their divorce in Paris, France in 1924, they were

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300-584: The Thompson, Bendix, and G.E. trophies continued. Three B-47s flew cross country from March Air Force Base to the Philadelphia International Airport as participants in the 1955 Labor Day race. In the 1956 event, three B-47s participated in the G.E. Trophy race for Jet Bombers, flying from Kindley Field , Bermuda, to Oklahoma City . One of these set a course speed record of 601.187 MPH. The annual event resumed in 1964 as

325-467: The U.S. participation in World War II , the post-war races featured newer surplus military planes that greatly outclassed the planes from the pre-war era. In 1949 Bill Odom lost control of his P-51 "Beguine" and crashed into a Cleveland-area home, killing himself and two people. The races went on hiatus again. Though the events specific to Cleveland were in suspension, the cross country races for

350-606: The company also syndicated comic strips to other newspapers around the country from circa 1905 until the paper's demise in 1931. Joseph Pulitzer 's New York World newspaper began publishing cartoons in 1889. A color Sunday humor supplement began to run in the World in Spring 1893. In 1894, the World published the first color strip, designed by Walt McDougall , showing that the technique already enabled this kind of publication. The supplement's editor Morrill Goddard contacted cartoonist Richard F. Outcault and offered Outcault

375-486: The early 1900s the World was known as "the promised land for aspiring cartoonists." Charles Saalburg was chief of the color department during the heyday of the Yellow Kid. Harry Grant Dart eventually rose to become the World 's art editor, followed by Al Smith , who was the art editor for the syndication department from 1920 to 1930. After a series of legal battles between 1912 and 1914, Rudolph Dirks , creator of

400-452: The events tabulated a perfect safety record with nearly 600,000 miles raced, over 3,200 safe landings at 81 different airports in 43 states and two countries in 25 events. With the help of hundreds of volunteers and over 250 different sponsors she awarded 26 Learn-to-Fly scholarships and reached an estimated 20 million people with a positive message about General Aviation. Ralph Pulitzer Ralph Pulitzer (June 11, 1879 – June 14, 1939)

425-662: The hugely popular The Katzenjammer Kids strip, left the Hearst organization for Pulitzer and began a new strip, first titled Hans and Fritz and then The Captain and the Kids . It featured the same characters seen in The Katzenjammer Kids , and remained nearly as popular (eventually running until 1979). The E. W. Scripps Company acquired the New York World newspaper and its syndication assets in February 1931, bringing over to Scripps' United Feature Syndicate

450-597: The name Mickey Dugan. The strip's popularity drove up the World ' s circulation and the Kid was widely merchandised. Outcault — and much of the World's Sunday supplement staff — left for William Randolph Hearst 's New York Journal on October 18, 1896. George Luks took over with his own version of Hogan's Alley ; but the Yellow Kid's popularity soon faded, and Luks' version ended in December 1897. After Hogan's Alley ,

475-779: The number of their comic strips published and distributed by the World . Beginning in about 1905, the company began syndicating strips to other newspapers under the name World Feature Service ; in circa 1910 it added the syndication division New York World Press Publishing (also known as Press Publishing Co. ). Many notable cartoonists were on staff at various times at the paper, including Charles W. Saalburg , V. Floyd Campbell , Richard F. Outcault , Walt McDougall , George Herriman , Harry Grant Dart , J. Campbell Cory , George Luks , Clare Victor Dwiggins , C. W. Kahles , Carl Thomas Anderson , Charles A. Voight , Jack Callahan , Frank Fogarty , Walter Berndt , George McManus , Leslie Turner , Harry Haenigsen , and Percy Crosby . In

500-723: The parents of two sons: Four months after their divorce, Frederica married Cyril Hamlen Jones, later headmaster of Milton Academy in Milton, Massachusetts , and the former tutor to Pulitzer's two sons during the winter of 1921 to 1922. In 1928, Ralph Pulitzer married Vassar College graduate Margaret Kernochan Leech , who, after his death, received two Pulitzer Prizes for her own work. One of his daughters by his second marriage died of infantile paralysis, or poliomyelitis , in France before her first birthday. The other was: Pulitzer died during an abdominal operation on June 14, 1939, at

525-720: The pioneer age of aviation. These air races helped to inspire Donald Blakeslee as a young boy. Other races included in the U.S. National Air Races were the Mitchell Trophy Race, the Town & Country Club Race for civilians, the Kansas City Rotary Club Trophy "for all three military services," and the Glenn Curtiss Trophy Race for "biplanes with engines having less than 510 cubic inches (8,400 cm)." Starting in 1929,

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550-741: The races usually ran for up to 10 days, usually from late August to early September to include Labor Day. Aviation promoter Cliff Henderson was managing director of the National Air Races from 1928 to 1939. During World War II the races were on hiatus. The races included a variety of events, including cross-country races originating in Portland, Oakland, and Los Angeles, with a final destination in Cleveland. Also included were landing contests, glider demonstrations, airship flights, and parachute-jumping contests. The more popular events were

575-683: Was an American heir, newspaper publisher and author. He served as the president of the Press Publishing Co. , which published the New York World and the Evening World . Ralph Pulitzer was born on June 11, 1879, in St. Louis , Missouri. He was the son of Katherine "Kate" ( née Davis) Pulitzer and Joseph Pulitzer , the newspaper magnate. His mother was rumored to be a distant relative of Jefferson Davis , former president of

600-578: Was the author of two books. His first book, entitled New York Society on Parade , was published in 1910. His second book, entitled Over the Front in an Aeroplane and scenes inside the French and Flemish Trenches , was published in 1915; it was about World War I . His book contains descriptions of life in the trenches and the artillery used by the French in the early months of the War. It also includes sixteen photographs taken during his tour of several locations on

625-661: Was the winner in the heavy Class D (engines with 510–810 cubic inches (8,400–13,300 cm)), while Phoebe Omlie won the light Class C (engines with 275–510 cubic inches (4,510–8,360 cm)). This was also the year for the first female pylon race, the winner of which was awarded the Aerol Trophy beginning in 1931. In Chicago, on the last day of the 1930 trophy race (September 1), USMC Captain Arthur Page crashed his modified Curtiss Hawk Seaplane F6C-3 , and died of his injuries later that day. After being on hiatus during

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