Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Examine my daughters!" commanded Alfonso XIII, moody Last of the Bourbons, recently in London. Since his flight from Spain the ex-King has been thinking furiously about family matters, resembling in that respect fabled King Lear...
...Christopher ("Bat") Battalino: a Chicago fight in which he risked his world's featherweight championship against Earl Mastro; by a decision, after ten rounds. C. Top Flight, dark brown two-year-old filly owned by Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney and ridden by Jockey "Sonny" Workman: the Pimlico Futurity, her seventh race this season; raising the total of her cash winnings to $219,000, more than any other mare or any two-year-old has ever won before, more than any other race horse has won this year...
When a man & woman make a spectacular flight together two things happen: i) the woman gets most of the publicity, and 2) whether or not she did her share of the work she is flayed for getting most of the publicity. So it was last week with Peggy Salaman, 19, attractive London debutante, and Pilot Gordon Store who set Miss Salaman's Puss Moth monoplane Good Hope down upon the new Municipal Airdrome at Cape Town, South Africa, five and one half days after leaving Lympne, Kent, England. The flight (7,000 mi.) beat by more than...
Pilot Floyd C. Cox took off from Newark Airport for what ordinarily would have been a 68-min. express flight to Washington. This time a special stop was to be made at Camden to discharge one of the passengers, Francis R. Ehle, president of International Resistance Co. Besides two other paying passengers Pilot Vernon Lucas was deadheading on the plane to get home early...
...left by Pilot Cox. Earlier in the week he had borrowed $20 from the Camden passenger terminal. He left a note in the cashdrawer: "I 0 U $20. If I crack up, present this to my wife for collection." Just before taking off from Newark on his last flight he sent a message over the company's teletype: "I have the $20. Have a bodyguard meet my plane...