Word: huenefeld
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Died. Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, 36, of Berlin, trans-Atlantic flying partner of Capt. Hermann Koehl and Major James E. Fitzmaurice (TIME, April 23); after a stomach operation; in Berlin. His career was brilliant, despite great physical odds. From boyhood his heart was weak; his right, monocled eye was nearly sightless. In the War both his legs were lacerated by shrapnel. He contracted a stomach malady which he knew to be incurable. But he fought bravely, wrote plays and poetry. As a vice consul in Holland he received the fleeing Kaiser. The Crown Prince was his crony. Never married...
Baron Ehrenfried von Huenefeld, trans-Atlantic air passenger, recovered from an appendicitis operation, straightway enrolled in a flying school at Stuttgart, Germany...
When Baron Ehrenfried Guenther von Huenefeld, Capt. Hermann Koehl and Maj. James G. Fitzmaurice arrived in Manhattan after their east-west trans-Atlantic flight (TIME, May 7) they received a noisy, elaborate burst of greeting. Touched by this fanfare, impartially accorded by the U.S. to a two-thirds Germanic achievement, they donated the propeller of their monoplane Bremen to the projected Museum of the City of New York...
Gallant, grateful von Huenefeld, speaking for himself and his companions last week, gave the Bremen entire, to the Museum. "The hand stretched out to us in Dure enthusiasm, and in warm, hearty feeling convinced us that the rift in friendship between the two nations . . . must never again occur. A bridge must be constructed capable of withstanding all storms...
Baron Ehrenfried Gunther von Huenefeld, trans-Atlantic flyer, has often written poems and essays, most of which remain unpublished. Having completed his flight to the U. S. he wrote no autobiography but a play which will be produced at the end of this month, in Dresden. The play's name is Dread of Good Luck...