Word: mollisons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Amy Johnson Mollison, 32, transatlantic flier, onetime London stenographer; from James Allan Mollison, playboyish British airman; in London...
Hearing the news, Singer Edith Dahl wept for joy in Cannes, tried to decide which of two Hollywood contracts she should accept. At the last instant she turned down an offer of British Long-Distance Flyer James Mollison, who was sued for divorce last week by his equidistant flying wife Amy Johnson Mollison, to fly her to Salamanca, hurried to Paris to await her husband before returning with him to Hollywood...
...Johnson, widow of Explorer Martin Johnson, leading a safari to make moving pictures, rescued her friends Canadian Goldminer Phillip Whitmarsh and his wife. Flying to join the Johnson party, they had crashed 30 miles from Nairobi, spent four days without food. In the London Sunday Chronicle, James Allan Mollison, stubby four-time trans-Atlantic flyer and, in 1932, first person to fly solo across the North Atlantic east to west, serialized his autobiography. Week before publication was to start he blurbed: "The world knows me as a hero, but I am a night bird. . . . Life for me begins when daylight...
...extended the start to any time in August. But protests continued to fulminate in the U. S., not only from such transatlantic experts as Dr. James Henry Kimball of the Weather Bureau, but from such authoritative groups as the National Aeronautical Association. Meanwhile 22 flyers, including Amy Johnson Mollison and Dick Merrill, entered the race...
Amid the general chorus of approval there were several bitter notes. Snapped Amy Johnson Mollison, sailing from Manhattan where she had been training for the flight: "It is not a stunt flight, and I don't agree with your Commerce Department ruling. They are very far behind the times. . . . The ruling is as good as saying that flying is not safe." Minister Cot managed to remain gracious, denied that he would try to arrange a race to Paris from Buenos Aires or Canada...