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...years ago last week a slim unknown named Charles Augustus Lindbergh flew from New York to Paris and on into history. To publicize the Paris International Exposition this summer, French Air Minister Pierre Cot last year announced an air race for 3,000,000 francs ($135,000) from New York to Paris on the tenth anniversary of Lindbergh's flight no matter what the weather (TIME, Sept...
Born. To Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh, 35; and Mrs. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 29: a son, their third; in London...
...Lightbody, Mrs. Kendrie N. Marshall, Mrs. C. Doughlas Mercer, Mrs. Lloyd Mills, Mrs. George Mixter, Mrs. Junius S. Morgan, Mrs. Elting E. Morison, Mrs. George S. Olive, Mrs. Arthur W. Page, Mrs. William B. Pratt, Mrs. Philip L. Reed, Mrs. Archibald B. Roosevelt, Mrs. John E. Rousmaniere, Mrs. Augustus W. Soule, Mrs. James J. Storrow, Jr., Mrs. Donald C. Watson, Mrs. Richard C. Webster, Mrs. Edward A. Whitney, Mrs. Charles G. Winslow, Mrs. Orrin G. Wood, Mrs. Turnbull Wood and Mrs. William L. Wood...
Loch Ness, largest of Scotland's lakes (22½ mi. long, 1¾ mi. wide), bisects the Highlands from Inverness on the northeast to Fort Augustus- on the southwest. Near its narrow shores are many a Highland distillery, many towns and glens intimately connected with haberdashery: Inverness (tweed capes), Glen Urquhart (gents' suitings), Glen Garry (highland bonnets). Ben Nevis, best publicized mountain in Scotland, is only 30 mi. to the southwest. In August 1933 when workmen were blasting a new motor road along the west shore of the lake, the monster was first "seen." Eyewitnesses during the following...
Whatever the Monster was, it was a godsend to Loch Ness hotelkeepers, tourist agencies, omnibus operators. At the height of the 1934 excitement newshawks suddenly remembered the Benedictine monastery at Fort Augustus, at the southern and deepest end of the lake. There they found jovial, garrulous 83-year-old the Right Rev. Sir David Hunter Blair, Bart. Sir David is more than a British baronet. He is a onetime captain of Scottish militia, an antiquarian, author of five books of memoirs, a Benedictine monk and titular Abbot of Dunfermline. Abbot Sir David has been an Abbot Emeritus of Fort Augustus...