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...years later, she lived and worked in Switzerland, England and France. Last summer she left her villa in the south of France, turned up at the Dublin Inn, Dublin, N. H. In the autumn, driving her own small car, she proceeded to the Gold Eagle Tavern at Beaufort (pronounced Bufert), S. C. There last week she and her cocker spaniel, Billy, savored the spring...
...speed with the new German Junkers Ju. 88K which has a top of 330 m. p. h., can show its heels to pursuit with any kind of start. To Ju. 88K, and the somewhat slower Heinkels and Dorniers, Britain has several answers, now in production: the light Bristol Beaufort, with a top around 310 m. p. h., the Handley Page Hereford (a super-powered version of the service Hampden) and many others...
...ships; and they are good bombers. The Vickers Wellington can go almost 300 m.p.h., and has ample range to strike at Berlin-3,240 miles. Smaller, just as fast, the Bristol Blenheim (range: 1,125 miles) is one of Great Britain's main standbys. And the mysterious Bristol Beaufort is too fast and too good to be described to the public...
...completely across the Arctic. Roald Amundsen, Norway's hero-explorer, in a three-year trip and with the loss of one of his seven men, traversed the first Northwest Passage*-Baffin Bay, Barrow Straight, along the west coast of North Somerset Island to Cambridge Bay and out to Beaufort Sea and the Pacific. Amundsen's icebound trail, full of shallows, swirling currents and subject to sudden storms has since been followed by only three or four ships...
...badminton section last autumn, came of age last week when the national championships made badminton in daily papers jump from the society to the sports pages. Average badminton bat weighs 5 oz. to a tennis racquet's 13½ oz. Birds, still patterned after the Duke of Beaufort's champagne corks, weigh 80 grains. Best birds and bats are imported. Birds are made of fine-grained Spanish cork, covered with French kid, dressed in feathers from Czechoslovakian geese, whose high grease content makes their quills less breakable. Three birds, four bats, tapes, a net, and a place...