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...years ago the Dominion of New Zealand granted exclusive landing rights to Pan American Airways, providing that regular service was established between Auckland and Honolulu before 1938. Basing at Honolulu, P. A. A. last month sent its servicing "mother ship" 1,075 miles due south to Kingman Reef, first stop on the new route. Second stop was established at Pago Pago, Samoa, 1,538 miles farther south, where the clippers are prepared for the 1,798-mile jump into Auckland. Last week, flying his 19-ton. Sikorsky Samoan Clipper a steady 135 m.p.h., P. A. A.'s taciturn...
...Duchess of Kent; their two young sons, Prince Ludwig, 6, Prince Alexander, 4, and the 66-year-old Dowager Duchess were all flying to London for the wedding of Prince Ludwig, social attaché in the German Embassy at London, to Miss Margaret Campbell Geddes, daughter of Sir Auckland Campbell Geddes, onetime Cabinet Minister and onetime British Ambassador...
Delayed by a sudden storm, the Clipper's, crew spent three days making surveys of Samoa, finally got away for the test leg of the trip, the 1,800-mi. hop to Auckland, New Zealand, where the new line will tie up with a service Imperial Airways is soon to start from Australia across the 1,360 mi. Tasman Sea. This week the Clipper starts back to Honolulu and thence to Manila. Other planes will take up the testing of the new route, which thorough Pan American will probably fly for at least six months before beginning scheduled four...
...Milan. Divorce Revealed. Lily Pons, 29, French operasinger; from August Mesritz, fiftyish, Dutch lawyer; in Paris. Retiring. Dr. William Holland Wilmer, 70, famed eye surgeon whose patients included Siam's King Prajadhipok, Charles Lindbergh, J. P. Morgan, Booth Tarkington, the late Viscount Grey of Fallodon, Sir Auckland Geddes, Flyer Jimmy Doolittle; as director of Johns Hopkins Hospital's Wilmer Institute of Ophthalmology; next July 1. Reason: retirement...
...were the "Topics of the Day" and the "Foreign Comment," with editorial v. editorial, cartoon v. cartoon, colorlessly balanced. There were the familiar sentences of transition: "It seems to the Tribune that two effects will be observed: . . ." "Says H. H. Bennett, writing in the New York Times: ..." "As the Auckland (N. Z.) Weekly News tells us: . . ." There were the "Current Poetry" column, and "The Spice of Life" page of jokes. That was two weeks ago. Last week what would they have found on the newsstands? ¶ A Digest whose cover consisted of a photograph of President Roosevelt, topped...