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Although he was in Dover, O. the son of who traveled and vaudeville. His J. C. Nugent, is it when he is not on Broadway motion pictures. been a child actor honorable Keith- circuit, so he today to starring in productions...
...Franco-Belgian staff consultations will not be disturbed. It appeared, however, that the French General Staff must thoroughly overhaul its plans and that possibly France may have to extend her $300,000,000 Maginot Line defenses (which now stretch from Switzerland to Luxemburg) clear across to the Straits of Dover...
...journey. This week marks a partial end of that ancient inconvenience. It is now possible to board a train in London, go to sleep, and wake next morning in Paris, as one of three big train-ferries carries the whole train across the 50 rough miles of water from Dover to Dunkirk...
...Louis Blériot, 64, first man to fly the English Channel in a heavier-than-air machine; of heart disease; in Paris. In 1909, in a crude monoplane with a 28-h. p. motor, short, mustachioed Louis Blériot lumbered up from Les Barragues, buzzed across to Dover some 250 ft. above the water at an average speed of 45 m. p. h., won a $5,000 prize. Same year, after a serious crackup, he stopped flying, went into airplane manufacture. In 1927, when Lindbergh made the first solo flight from New York to Paris, Pioneer...
...since Stanley Baldwin said that Great Britain's frontier is no longer the white cliffs of Dover but the wimpling Rhine (TIME, Aug. 13, 1934) have Berlin statesmen been so vexed at London as they were last week. Reason: His Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for War, the Rt. Hon. Alfred Duff-Cooper, had hied himself to Paris and there made a speech in which he told Frenchmen...