Word: easterner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Pilots Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill and John S. Lambie, on leave from Eastern Air Lines, flew to England fortnight ago in 21 hr., 3 min. (TIME, May 17), loose-spoken Radio Commentator Boake Carter snapped into his microphone: "Stunt flights across the ocean had their place at one time. Now Aviation has advanced beyond that point. Hopping to London to pick up some Coronation pictures and then fly back again may be a spectacular thing-but what does it contribute to the industry? Nothing as far as one can see. The country doesn't want that kind...
...London Pilot Merrill hotly protested that his trip was no "stunt"' but "a pioneering commercial venture in aviation," and in Manhattan Eastern Air Lines officials pointed out that passengers constantly request to be "put on Dick Merrill's plane." But some professional aviators agreed with Boake Carter, pointing out such facts as that Pilot Merrill relied greatly on a Sperry gyropilot in his jaunt but did not bother to test it or learn fully how it worked before starting...
Receiving a pre season build up as the leading contenders for the Eastern Intercollegiate championship, Coach Fred Mitchell's 1937 baseball nine went into an early slump and remains the mystery team of the League. By dint of three victories and one defeat, the Crimson has climbed to second position in the league standings and in the opinion of Andy Coakley, coach at Columbia will wind up in first place at the end of the current season...
Greenland, biggest island in the world, more than eight times as big as Great Britain, for 200 years was a bone of contention between Norway and Denmark. Each claimed ownership; Norway annexed the eastern coast. They submitted the dispute to the Permanent Court of International Justice at The Hague which in 1933 upheld Denmark's claim, decided that Denmark was doing "good work." Denmark has made Greenland a closed country. Its 17,000 people are scattered along the barren coasts, the centre of the island being a gigantic uninhabitable icecap. There are 3,000 Eskimos, and Denmark is determined...
...Merrill flew Crooner Harry Richman to England, was forced down in Wales (TIME, Sept. 14). On the return trip he cracked up in Newfoundland, got embroiled in a tawdry, name-calling squabble with Richman, to whom he no longer speaks (TIME, Sept. 28). Back on his regular run for Eastern Air Lines, Dick Merrill next made news by wrapping his ship around a mountain, miraculously without injury to his eight passengers (TIME, Dec. 28 et seq.). Last week. Pilot Merrill finally got into the headlines with news of a more successful sort...