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Gene Vidal as Director of Aeronautics flew to Warm Springs last fortnight to show President Roosevelt his "threeyear plan" for aviation. For variety it was an administrative Decathlon. Back at his Washington desk last week as Lindbergh crossed the South Atlantic and started homeward, Director Vidal was stirring the aviation industry as it had not been stirred since Lindbergh first flew into the east...
...Islands, where Colonel Lindbergh painted a sign on his plane: "Lindbergh's Property. Trespassing Forbidden"; and Cape Verde Islands to the tiny British colony where they now broiled. Ahead of them lay a 1,875-mi. salt water hop to Natal, Brazil, the last ocean-crossing of their homeward trek. Somewhere near the Equator they might pass within striking distance of Germany's seadrome, the S. S. Westphalen. The heat and Mrs. Lindbergh's homesickness combined to increase their impatience...
...breakfast coffee in an Avignon bistro when the barman pushed him a copy of the morning paper. Ribiere's eye fell on the news that his ticket had won the 5,000,000 franc ($323,000) Grand Prize. He whirled, leaped into the air, vanished out the door, homeward bound to check his ticket number. It checked. He ran back through Avignon's narrow streets to the building where his mother is a janitress. Yipping, prancing and slapping himself, he yelled. "Mama, wake up! Wake up! We're rich!" As the other winners could have warned...
...Homeward-bound on his yacht from South America, where he and his wife have been exploring the Orinoco River. John Hays Hammond...
...interesting exhibits) the Concord Battle Ground, and Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Here are buried Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Alcotts. Through the courtesy of Mrs. Sarah Ripley Ames the party will be shown through the Old Manse, a house not regularly open for visitors. At the beginning of the trip homeward there is an opportunity to see Lake Walden. The tickets for this excursion include transportation dinner and all admissions...