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Although he left for Europe considerably before Winant, President Conant arrived at Lisbon at the same time; Conant traveled to Portugal by beat, whereas Winant flew by clipper. Both men, together with Benjamin Cohon, New Deal brain-truster, flew to Bristol, England, on Friday...
...week Wendell Willkie arrived in the U. S. gusty with a new enthusiasm: meteorology. He had been in on an exciting experiment. At i a.m., high over the dark Atlantic, he had tumbled out of his berth and into the navigating room of Pan American Airways' homebound Dixie Clipper. With President Juan Terry Trippe and other Pan American officials, Willkie eagerly watched the instrument panels as the huge ship droned along at various altitudes, feeling out strange east winds on her tail. At 4,000 to 5,000 feet the passengers' smiles were broadest, the plane making...
...Clipper was trying a new route. For the first time she dipped far south of her usual Lisbon-Azores-Bermuda route, went via Portuguese Guinea and Trinidad. The southern route was nearly twice as long; yet the Clipper carried double her usual load of men and mails for the U. S. Reason: instead of carrying extra fuel to buck wintry, 50-mile westerlies, the plane coasted along on a firm east wind. It was the trade wind, friend of mariners since Columbus...
Last week Wendell Willkie returned to the U. S. from the British Isles and the war. At 8:05 one cold morning the Dixie Clipper, glittering in the bright morning sun, loomed over the Whitestone Bridge, came down for a perfect landing in the choppy water off New York's LaGuardia Airport. The returning traveler, extremely tired, his white shirt rumpled, his gray herringbone suit needing pressing, waved for photographers, greeted his son, kissed his wife, and said: "I'm glad to be home...
...pros within a year-football fans speculated on his successor. Traditionally, Notre Dame's coach must be an alumnus. That specification applied to 40-odd possible candidates, notably, Jim Crowley (Fordham), Harry Stuhldreher (Wisconsin), Jim Phelan (Washington), Buck Shaw (Santa Clara), Eddie Anderson (Iowa), Frank Thomas (Alabama), Clipper Smith (Villanova), Gus Dorais (Detroit), Frank Leahy (Boston College), Charlie Bachman (Michigan State). At South Bend people thought that the University would probably ignore these top-notchers, promote Line Coach Joe Boland, for seven years Layden's understudy...