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...transatlantic airplane crossing was not made, as you said it was, by two Britons in a Vickers Vimy bomber [July 12]. It was made by six Americans in a Navy NC4 flying boat under Lieut. Commander Albert Gushing Read, U.S.N. This "forgotten" first crossing was made in May, 1919 (Newfoundland-Azores-Lisbon), a month earlier than that by Alcock and Brown in their bomber (Newfoundland-Ireland). The Britons collected the ?10,000 prize offered by the London Daily Mail for a nonstop flight-still offering prizes, I see-while the pioneering Americans languished in comparative obscurity. I had occasion...
...policy of spreading the use of French throughout the country and making the French Canadians feel at home outside Quebec. Already, Trudeau is appealing to young Quebecois to go out and "see how beautiful it is in British Columbia, see how the Atlantic breaks on the granite shores of Newfoundland, see the tremendous adventure that is in store...
...light-tackle aficionado may hook ten fish for every one he catches. But the one is worth it. Last August, off Conception Bay, Newfoundland, Veteran Angler Lee Wulff, 63, set a world record by landing a 597-lb. bluefin tuna on 50-lb.-test line. Wulff played that bulldog of the deep for 13½ hr. before finally coaxing it to gaff. "Now I know," he sighed afterward, "what a guy feels like when he has climbed a mountain for the first time...
...across the river is crying, or talking of a building year. The Terriers so far have beaten Memorial University of Newfoundland, 8-2; New Brunswick, 13-3; Yale, 9-1; and New Hampshire...
Last week Sister Xavier, now an honorary colonel in the U.S. Army, and the girls of Clarke's Coffee House Theater were back on U.S.O. tour, this time a six-weeks-long foray through armed-forces camps in Greenland, Labrador, Newfoundland and Iceland. The troupe is doing folk singing, modern-jazz dancing, sing-alongs, satirical skits and, our reporting indicates, living up to the way we described the girls of three years ago: "Vigorous and venturesome." In picking up that description for the title of Chapter 1 of GI Nun, Sister Xavier carefully added a word...