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...barely possible that they had lost their way in the fog and were alive somewhere in the wilderness of Labrador. It was more likely that heavy ice on the wings of their plane forced them to death in the waters of the Atlantic off the coast of Newfoundland. Several reputable citizens of Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, swore that they saw (others heard) a plane in the air at about the hour that the White Bird was due. But a thorough combing of land and sea in this district had not yet revealed even so much as a strut of the White...
...wireless message last week, obviously a hoax, said: "Nungesser and Coli have been located. The two aviators trekked into Trinity [Newfoundland] late Thursday afternoon. . . . They were bedraggled and weary. News follows by cable. Please distribute to newspapers...
...Start. Dropping its landing gear to lessen its load, the White Bird skirted the southern coasts of England and Ireland, pointed its nose toward Newfoundland. It had no wireless. It was flying north of the usual steamship lanes. An angry wind from the west was beating in its face, slowing its speed. Expecting to reach New York in 35 hours, it carried only enough gasoline for 40 hours flying...
...flown 500,000 miles in pursuit of glory and fortune, he said. He has spent the equivalent of 208 days above the earth. From Boston, he plans to fly to Philadelphia, then to Charleston, S. C., Pensacola, Fla., Memphis, Tenn, St. Louis, Chicago, Montreal and then to Newfoundland, from where he will take off for the Azores, Spain and back to Rome...
...finding the University after three and a half years a little irksome he blithely whistled good-bye to his diploma and the final semester, to become a painter. From his studies he was lured successively by Vermont, Alaska, the Straits of Magellan, Labrador, the Alps, Tierra del Fuego, Newfoundland. In one place he was arrested for assaulting a swindler. In Newfoundland, the good fisherfolk, seeing him staring out to sea in all kinds of bad weather, concluded he was a German spy signaling to submarines. "Oh, lots of things have happened to me. It's great stuff...