Word: coli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Capitaine Francois Coli you have applied the adjective "late" (TIME, July 18). This is more of your self-sureness, of your typically American wish to be ahead of others - for I well know that you do not know (because no one knows) that Francois Coli is dead...
...should be ashamed to think of his wife!* What she would think of you I know! When some funeral has been held for these heroes, when the beautiful custom of strewing rose leaves on the water has taken place, then you can write of Coli as "late" - not till then...
...good point, well taken, TIME stands rebuked, joins Madame Saval in the hope that Francois Coli and his gallant comrade will yet be found alive...
...England, but without success. Then it occurred to Mr. Levine that his homeward pilot might well be a Frenchman. He approached Pilot Pelletier D'Oisy, Paris-to-Tokyo aeronaut. He talked with one-legged Pilot Tarascon, who was to have flown the Atlantic last year with the late Pilot Coli. Finally, after long night sessions, he decided on Maurice Drouhin, whose private plans were virtually complete. He made Pilot Drouhin an offer (reputedly $150,000) which Pilot Drouhin, whose wife was about to have a baby, could not well refuse. Pilot Drouhin said he accepted in order...
...months ago, well-meaning Mr. Forrest, whose years of scrivening and dubious golf game have not dulled his sensibilities and his imagination, stood outside the offices of a leading Paris newspaper and watched the posting of bulletins about ill-fated Flyers Coli and Nungesser. Several thousands of Frenchmen surrounded Mr. Forrest and when a bulletin was posted saying that the flyers had been falsely reported safe in the U. S., Mr. Forrest interpreted the Frenchmen's noisy grief and disappointment as an "anti-A m e r i c a n demonstration." Other U. S. correspondents in Paris soon...