Word: drummond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Only nine passengers made the full Lakehurst-Lakehurst round trip. They were Karl von Wiegand (Hearst correspondent), Sir George Hubert Wilkins (Hearst correspondent), Lady Grace Drummond lay (Hearst correspondent), Robert Hartman (Hearst photographer), Lieut.-Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl (Hearst guest, U. S. Naval observer), Lieut. Jack C. Richardson (U. S. Naval observer), William B. Leeds (rich playboy), Joachim Rickard (correspondent for Spanish newpapers), Heinz von Eschwege-Lichbert (German journalist...
There, snubbed to a mooring mast for the air races was the Los Angeles. "Wild Indians could hardly have made more noise than Commander Rosendahl and Lieut. Jack Richardson at the familiar sight," gurgled Lady Drummond Hay through her typewriter. Next were the Akron hills with the Goodyear-Zeppelin dirigible hangar mounting tremendously toward completion. No trouble was there getting to Manhattan and Lakehurst, and much joy. First to alight was Lieut. Richardson, who jumped to hug his wife and child. Other passengers rushed variously for bath and bed. Said Playboy Leeds: "I never saw the world, but only four...
...With them went plenty of food, 12 quarts of Philadelphia whiskey, six quarts of Philadelphia brandy, freight, letters including one on Edgar Allan Poe's 1844 newspaper hoax that a flying machine had crossed the Atlantic in three days. The Hearst people remained behind. Mr. von Wiegand rested. Lady Drummond-Hay cuddled to her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Thomas Leftbridge, who had just reached Manhattan from London. They found her "two shades darker than she was before she started . . . handsomer than ever." Sir George Hubert Wilkins hurried to Cleveland and shyly married Suzanne Bennett, actress, in a justice...
Deaf & Blind. In a theatre on the 50th floor of the Chanin Building, Manhattan, 100 people, some totally blind, some deaf, sat in their seats while Bulldog Drummond was projected on the screen and played on the recording machine. The deaf "listened" through special earphones; a lecturer with a cultured voice explained the action to the blind. The deaf got the most excited, the blind laughed most at funny parts; all applauded at the end, then went home to their respective silence, darkness...
...last week, to please Publisher William Randolph Hearst, wrote coquettish Lady Grace Drummond Hay of the corps of Hearst correspondents on the Hearst-arranged globe trot of the Graf Zeppelin...