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...flight out of Santa Monica. "I was crying so hard, I couldn't even see the mountains near by," she recalls. "But I've loved flying ever since." Last week Knapp, who now heads her own charter-plane company in Los Angeles, circled the globe in 45 hr. 32 min. 53 sec., setting a new record for all classes of civilian aircraft. The 23,340-mile trip in a Gulfstream III, which began and ended in Washington, included stops in Moscow, Peking, Tokyo and London. Says Knapp of her aerial feat: "It's the most exhilarating thing...
...which mercifully can be expressed as 2 251 -1. After a total of 32 hr. and 12 min. of computer time, snatched at odd hours over a period of a month, they came up with their answer...
...French navigator and radio operator on the first nonstop Paris-to-New York transatlantic flight; in Paris. In 1930 Bellonte and Pilot Dieu-donne Costes reversed Charles Lindbergh's 1927 course in their crimson Bre-guet sesquiplane Question Mark. Taking off from Le Bourget airfield, they landed 37 hr. 18 min. and 3,600 miles later at Curtiss Field in Valley Stream...
Wednesday, January 24: A Harvard art student sketching a painting at the Fogg Museum at 1:30 p.m. was approached by a man who first asked to kiss her and, when she refused grabbed hr and tried anyway. The student broke home but jul not report the event until Later police and because she did not consider the man dangerous...
...long march of celluloid confined to Hollywood. In last week's balloting by the National Society of Film Critics, two of the top three vote getters were Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander (3 hr. 10 min.) and R.W. Fassbinder's mammoth Berlin Alexanderplatz (15 hr. 21 min.). In the time it would take to watch just those two films, you could have seen all ten pictures nominated for the 1937 Oscar and still have had time left over to catch a Pete Smith Specialty and a couple of Mickey Mouse cartoons...