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Last March Imperial Airways, then run by dour Sir John Reith, tersely announced that its flying boat Corsair had made a forced landing in the Belgian Congo, "but all aboard are safe." Last week, uninformative Sir John having become British Minister of Information, and the Corsair having returned to Great Britain, the story of its African saga was told...
...Corsair, flown by Captain Edward Samson Alcock, younger brother of the Empire's late famed pioneer Transatlantic Flier Captain Sir John Alcock, was bound last March from Kisumu to Cairo, on the South Africa-to-England run. Young Alcock was rocketing along over the jungle at 200 m.p.h. when he found he was running out of fuel. Instead of flying over Juba, he was 150 miles to the southeast. The Dangu River, swarming with hippos, crocodiles and water snakes, hedged by high and slippery banks, yawned beneath...
...correspondents located all over the world. The result, 50,000 words a day, goes out by teletype to some 250 radio stations from Manila to Mozambique, to 40-odd newspapers from Alaska to London, and over short-wave to ships at sea, including J. P. Morgan's Corsair whenever she puts out. Acclaimed in the radio business for accuracy, wariness and brevity, Transradio got wide kudos during the war-bulletin period for keeping its editorial head screwed on tight, broadcasting no scare heads...
Rehearsals have just been started on "The Corsair," a fantasy in two acts, which is being produced by the newly formed International Club. The comedy, originally written and given in French, was adapted by members of the club, who are also doing their own staging, acting, and producing...
John Pierpont Morgan sued Manhattan's Sound & Harbor Towing Corp. for $3,500. Reason: A scow towed by a tug bumped his 343-foot, turboelectric yacht, Corsair. Banker Morgan accused the tugboat pilot of 1) negligence, 2) attempting to leave the scene of the accident...