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...unqualified lie. The man was an English mechanic who I discovered, was a most brutal wife beater. A friend told me of it and I told the friend to have his wife tell Gillard that the next time he beat her, to come over here ["The Merry Mills," Cobham Va.] with her flock of children and I'd put her and them up at two farm houses on this place with my farmer and wife. He beat her shortly after. She and children fled here, while Gillard was out walking. He came home and followed her here. I always...
...about 20 attempts, four London-Australia Sir flights Ross besides Smith and Hinkler's crew of were five, 30 completed: days; 1926, 1919, Sir Alan Cobham, 62 days: 1928, Capt. William Newton Lancaster and Mrs. Keith Miller, 32 days; 1929, Lieut. J. Moir, crashed 100 miles from Port Darwin...
...accomplished 1928's greatest aeronautical achievement. He flew alone from England to Australia in 15 days, 12 hrs. (TIME, March 5, 1928). His reward: a gold medal like the ones the Federation has awarded in prior years to Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Commander Francesco de Pinedo, Sir Alan J. Cobham...
...flap its wings. Alan Cobham, British aviator in the plane, looked down and started with amazement, for scowling up at him from beneath their heavy orbital ridges were the very dragons of his nursery books. And they were alive-huge, dark monsters nine feet long, who raised themselves on post-like legs to glare at the strange thing in the air. They showed no fear: during a million years all beasts on Komodo had fled from their voracity...
Some years ago a Dutch engineer swore that he had seen these monsters. Men disbelieved him. They might not have believed Aviator Cobham. But two years ago William Douglas Burden of Manhattan led out an expedition, found the creatures, killed three, caught two more. The live ones he gave to the Bronx Zoo. They soon died and are now being pickled. The dead three he gave to the American Museum of Natural History, whose experts found them to be gigantic lizards, related to the monitor lizards of Australia...