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This distance is 2,100 nautical miles. When the ships had accomplished it (as there seemed every likelihood of their doing, what the guard ships, the good weather) they would have beaten the non-stop flight record established last month by the Frenchmen, Arrachard and Le Caitre. In Honolulu, crowds gathered to watch a tiny plane crawl across a bulletin board, nearer, nearer. When it arrived there would be a holiday...
...trouble. Commander John Rogers on the seaplane had reported to Naval listeners that headwinds had forced him to open his throttles in order to keep his headway?that his petrol tanks were consequently emptying too fast. This message of distress was regarded as distinctly alarming. It meant that the Frenchmen would retain for a while longer the non-stop flight record. Why, it might actually means that the Rogers and his men were in danger...
Kind hands massaged his temples; sprinkled water on his faint cheeks; after two minutes he bounded to his feet. The crowd huzzahed. Encouraged the Frenchmen ran out the last set which gave them the match...
French forces in Morocco were said to rival kaleidoscopes in the diversity of their hues, varying from fairest white to darkest black. White Frenchmen from the North and olive Frenchmen from the South fight shoulder to shoulder with coffee, chocolate and black Annamites, Senegalese, Hindus, Algerians, Tunisians, and, as despatch most aptly put it "the mixed grill of the Foreign Legion...
...doubles title was fought for by two Frenchmen, two Americans. The Frenchmen won. They were Lacoste and Borotra. The Americans were Roy Casey of San Francisco and tall John Hennessey of Indianapolis. All were exhausted; the score...