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Everyone who rides the Yankee Clipper however, is not seeking rest and relaxation..., Tony Fertita, who made the trip last Saturday, was on pins and needles all the way for fear he'd be late for his own wedding at St. Patrick's Cathedral, scheduled for six that evening. As might be expected, the train was late, but the bride forgave... and the ceremony went off as planned...
Testing and Insurance. Most of the big ones were Eddie Allen's babies-Douglas' DCs, Boeing's Stratoliner and Clipper, Consolidated's four-motored Coronado, Curtiss-Wright's Commando, Lockheed's new Constellation (which he shook down last month). Greatest single tribute to his skill was that a big insurance company refused to cover such test flights unless Eddie Allen was up front...
LISBON--Four bodies had been recovered and 19 persons still were missing tonight in the crash of the Pan-American Airways trans-Atlantic flying boat Yankee Clipper that exploded and sank as it approached its base on the Tagus River last night in a thunderstorm...
Sixteen of the 39 persons aboard the big plane, including Jane Froman, American stago, screen and radio singing star, were being treated for injuries. The Clipper brought 26 passengers from New York and one from Horta, in addition to its crow...
...Place Like Home. Briggsy was a horrifying bowser of a Bryn Mawr graduate-a Philadelphia Main Liner, piddler in photography, a breeder of Scottish terriers. Briggsy was abetted by her Ma and Pa, who lined Jimbo-Jumbo's "den" with photographs of clipper ships; by her bouncing redheaded sisters, Franzie, Pollsie and Nellsie...