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...Death in Lisbon...
...Yankee Clipper, dropping down to a river landing at Lisbon, skimmed the water with a wing tip, suddenly burst into a flower of flame and cut under the surface. Of 39 men & women aboard, 24 were lost. Among the missing: Musicomedienne Tamara (one of a party of USO entertainers), New York Herald Tribune Correspondent Ben Robertson. Three of the survivors rescued by trawler crews: Radio Singer Jane Froman, Nightclub Entertainer Gypsy Markoff, William Butterworth, First Secretary of the U.S. Legation in Lisbon. Rescued Captain R. O. D. Sullivan, pilot of the ship, had no explanation for the first fatal accident...
...LISBON--Four bodies had been recovered and 19 persons still were missing tonight in the crash of the Pan-American Airways trans-Atlantic flying boat Yankee Clipper that exploded and sank as it approached its base on the Tagus River last night in a thunderstorm...
Acting as if he had always lived there, Penny passed plainclothed Italian police, brightly bloomered Swiss Guards and Pontifical Gendarmerie. Safely inside, he conferred with the British Minister to the Holy See (Francis D'Arcy Godolphin Osborne) and embarrassed cardinals, who finally arranged his exchange in Lisbon for an Italian sergeant held by the British...
...Portuguese newspapers reported that it was the first time in 300 years that a Spanish foreign minister had paid an official call in Lisbon...