Word: mollison
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Married. James Allan Mollison, 44, playboyish British airman, first man to fly the North Atlantic solo from east to west (1932); and Mary Kamphuis, 33, tall blonde director of his cocoa-butter firm; he for the third time (his first wife, Aviatrix Amy Johnson Mollison, was killed in a plane crash in 1941, three years after their divorce), she for the second; in Maidenhead, England...
Before she took off, Atlantic Flyer Jim Mollison lent her his wrist watch, saying, "For God's sake, don't get it wet. Salt water would ruin the works." Author Markham kept the watch dry, but she cracked up in a Cape Breton bog. She was the first woman to fly the Atlantic, eastwest. But even Author Markham could not fly the Atlantic every...
...Stock Exchange. - After doing her best to save civilization at Geneva, pale, implacable Alice Paul, founder, chairman and planetary lobbyist of the World Women's Party for Equal Rights, landed in New York City, announced: "Men are to blame for the present war." - Straw-haired British Acrobat Jimmy Mollison, who made the first solo flight westward over the north Atlantic in 1932, landed at Halifax to help ferry U.S.-built bombers back to Britain. - Readers of one of the longest columns in the U.S. press (In the News) have been marveling for a month at William Randolph Hearst...
Drowned. Amy Johnson Mollison, 37, No. 1 British aviatrix, who flew the Atlantic in July 1933 with her since-divorced husband, Captain James Mollison (their only baggage her lipstick); when she bailed out over the Thames estuary from a warplane she was ferrying from a factory to an airdrome...