AERONAUTICS: Colyumist Kahn

In the eight years since he organized his first professional dance orchestra at the age of 15, Roger Wolff (Wolfe) Kahn, youngest son of Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, has spent much time in doing things unexpected of young sons of rich men (TIME, Sept. 19, 1927). Last month he undertook a role apparently as strange as his others, but easily explainable. The role: aviation colyumist for the Newark Free Press. The explanation: Roger Kahn is an able flyer. And Publisher John Barry Ryan Jr., joint founder of the new Free Press (TIME,...

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