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...blistering. None, remarked the canons, but Americans with their quaint inquisitiveness would make such a trip in such weather. Forthwith they sent servants to heat liquids. Other servants they dispatched to assemble the St. Bernard dogs, those great spaniels bred to retrieve humans from the Alpine snows just as Newfoundland dogs, another breed of spaniel, retrieve humans from waters. The canons rarely accompany the dogs on rescues. They are Roman Catholic clergy, vowed to poverty, obedience and chastity. They live a monastic life, but technically are not monks. Their servants do the chores around the St. Bernard hospice; and since...
Thus spoke Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson, as she shut up her Long Island real estate office and climbed into the Dawn to fly for Newfoundland and thence across the sea. Of her "different" Christmas the world gleaned only one descriptive detail: Her Christmas message to the world was a faint whisper out of the air, caught by the ear of the radio station at Sable Island, off Nova Scotia: "Something gone wrong...
Four weeks ago a monoplane jumped eastward from Newfoundland to break the record for a journey around the world. At the controls sat William S. Brock; beside him sat Edward F. Schlee...
...open the map case, and learn how somewhere into the tossing water beneath them another ship had tumbled from the air. Whether or not they ever read the note was not known. The Sir John Carling carried no radio. She was not seen by any ship after she left Newfoundland. She did not arrive in London. The waves whisper her story; but man cannot understand the sombre argot...
...hours after this take-off the Old Glory radio functioned perfectly, saying for the first 500 miles "all well." Then an electric whisper went up the spine of the listening world. SOS. Silence. Five minutes later another SOS. WRHP*?Five Hours out from Newfoundland, east. Silence...