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...Mabel Boll, "Queen of Diamonds," whose trans-Atlantic conversation enlisted the aid of famed Passenger Charles A. Levine; who has been photographed in innumerable poses beside innumerable planes, whose flight to Rome has been a day-by-day concern of the tabloids, sailed quietly on the He de France. Big, buxom, German Thea Rasche, another trans-Atlantic threat, also looked up steamship sailings...
Detroit women gathered about Pilot Phoebe Fairgrave Omlie, onetime St. Paul parachute jumper (at 17), now a practical airplane dealer in Memphis. No Elder, Earhart, Boll or Rasche, Pilot Omlie is nevertheless a FIRST WOMAN, first to compete in the reliability tours. She flies a tiny cabin plane, takes her aviation intensely...
Tears splashed on the jewels of the Queen of Diamonds, otherwise Miss Mabel Boll (Senora Hernando Rocha-Schioos). "Now he has taken another woman," she sobbed...
Miss Earhart is an experienced pilot, licensed in May, 1923, a former holder of the altitude record for women fliers, but Miss Boll was led to take up trans-atlantic flying last summer by the ambition to show New Yorkers her Parisian sweater woven from gold links. Lady Lindy flies in a trimotored Fokker, equipped with pontoons and two radio sets, while the Diamond Queen has chosen the single-motored Columbia, trans-atlantic veteran with no pontoons and no radio. Backing Miss Earhart are the advice of Commander Byrd, the promoting wisdom of George Palmer Putnam and the wealth...
...Miss Boll, on Long Island, consoled herself with Oliver C. Le Boutillier and Captain Arthur Argles, War aces. Miss Earhart, at Trepassey, Newfoundland, admired the scenery. Both made false starts; both panted at the leash of bad weather...