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Forced to forego her own honeymoon twelve years ago because of her husband's first political campaign, Mrs. Eden was a diplomacy widow again last week at her sister's wedding to Dr. Bathhurst Norman in Yorkshire. Captain Eden had spent a hectic week-end in Britain but was forced to entrain for Geneva on the very morning of the wedding. It was increasingly evident to newshawks, however, that if diplomacy had made a widow out of Mrs. Eden. Benito Mussolini had made a monkey out of her husband...
...Puss Moth, alone as Lindbergh. Behind him lay the port of Natal; ahead of him a 1,600-mi. span to Africa which no airplane had yet flown eastward. In moonlight darkened by occasional squalls Pilot Hinkler flew 22 hr., sat down at the little colony of Bathhurst, British Gambia, with an hour's fuel in his tanks. He refuelled, flew on to Dakar. Why he undertook the hazardous flight, why he made his surprise flight from New York to Jamaica a month ago, Pilot Hinkler did not state...
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