Word: alcock
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...Arthur Whitten Brown flew back to London from New York, the second transatlantic flight of his life. His first, from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1919 with Sir John Alcock, was the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic-eight years before Lindbergh...
...shabby, flabby mess of promises and deals by which the former were cheated out of an England even half "fit for heroes." That out of the way, Graves and young (25-year-old) Alan Hodge get to work on the newspaper files. They remind us that Alcock and Brown flew the Atlantic eight years before Lindbergh did; reveal the British press showing "widespread disagreement . . . about even so recent and important an event as the German reoccupation of the Rhineland: according to a large body of opinion it took place in March 1934, not 1936." On the evils of the Versailles...
...Ferrying planes from factory to field in Britain was Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's adopted son Chiang Wei-kuo. . . .Earthbound as a Home Guard battalion commander was Sir Arthur Whitten Brown, co-hero of the first non-stop flight from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1919 with Sir John Alcock...
...runner in a Denver bank to go to Manhattan, where the Juilliard Foundation had given him a scholarship to study the piano. To pay his living expenses he played accompaniments in Manhattan vocal studios. Because he was such a good accompanist, famous singers like Richard Crooks, Merle Alcock, Gladys Swarthout, John Charles Thomas hired him for concerts. Says he: "If I couldn't be a musician and a respectable citizen - by that I mean earn my own living - at the same time, I'd give up music...
...Young Alcock, his passengers and three of the crew were carried overland to Juba, and from there the crestfallen pilot was recalled to London while thrifty Sir John rushed salvage engineers to the jungle. In three months, despite jungle fever, they completed repairs, and in July, when the Dangu rose to flood, they prepared to take off. With her four giant engines scaring up a bright cloud of fluttering parakeets, the patched Corsair lumbered majestically downstream. Before she rose, there was a disheartening rip and she tore her bottom out on a jagged rock...