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...April 1928, the German plane Bremen made the first non-stop westbound flight across the Atlantic, was forced down on remote Greenly Island at the mouth of the frozen St. Lawrence River. Avid for news, the New York World sent Flyers Floyd Bennett, who was half-sick, and Bernt Balchen flying to Greenly Island. They landed at Lake Ste. Agnes near Murray Bay, where Bennett could go no farther. A plane returned him to a hospital in Quebec where he developed a fulminating case of pneumonia. Pneumonia serum available at the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan might save Floyd Bennett...
...Club, which holds the world's team record of 486 breaks out of 500 targets. Some famed skeet enthusiasts: President Alvan-Macauley of Packard Motor Car Co., Publisher Orson Desaix Munn of Scientific American, Major-General Hanson Edward Ely, Financier James Alexander Stillman, Brigadier-General William Mitchell, Bernt Balchen, James Joseph ("Gene") Tunney, John Barrymore...
Married. Lincoln Ellsworth., 52, explorer who flew over the North Pole in 1926 with the Amundsen-Nobile expedition and who plans a similar flight with Pilot Bernt Balchen over the Antarctic next December; and one Mary Louise Ulmer, 32, aviatrix; in Manhattan...
...Hearst Land next December they expected to see an airplane fly over their heads. The plane would be making a non-stop flight from Ross Sea to Weddell Sea and return. In it would be three famed flying explorers-Lincoln Ellsworth, Bernt Balchen and Sir George Hubert Wilkins, who discovered Hearst Land...
Engaged. Lincoln Ellsworth, explorer, and one Mary-Louise Ulmer, amateur aviatrix of Pottsville, Pa. Next year, after the marriage and before Sir George Hubert Wilkins worms his way under Arctic ice to reach the North Pole. Mr. Ellsworth will go with Sir Hubert and Pilot Bernt Balchen to the Antarctic to attempt a 20-hr, flight from Ross Sea to Weddell Sea over the Queen Maud mountains...