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...Stratocruiser on the first leg of their record (30,000-mile) royal tour, Queen Elizabeth II and the Duke of Edinburgh winged through the night across the North Atlantic, touched down at Gander, Newfoundland for fuel, then skipped south to Bermuda, Britain's oldest colony. Landing at U.S.-leased Kindley Air Force Base, the Duke, technically the airport commander's landlord, graciously thanked him for the courtesy of his runway. That afternoon, during a round of nine parishes and two towns, the Duke lost his equerries at a garden party, asked in mock dismay: "Where the devil...
...first nonstop transatlantic airplane flight was made by two Britons, Alcock and Whitten-Brown, from Newfoundland to Ireland on June...
Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret flew to Southern Rhodesia to open a special Rhodes exhibit. Meanwhile, 5,400 miles away, 400 ex-Rhodes scholars gathered at Oxford for a celebration of their own. Half came from the U.S., the rest from Australia, Bermuda, Canada, India, Malta, Newfoundland, New Zealand, South Africa...
...president of Quaker Oats Co.,* liked the house and the appointment. Last week his name went to the Senate. The son and grandson of Canadians, he has been an inveterate tourist in Canada, has made a 1,000-mile pack trip across the Canadian Rockies, fished for salmon in Newfoundland, paddled a canoe north to Hudson...
...creditable, if unexciting, war records. At 17, Billy volunteered for the Naval Air Force, spent 2½ years "trying to get into an airplane but washing them instead," came out a naval cadet. Ben, turned down by his draft board because of defective vision, also volunteered, served in Newfoundland with the Air Force and emerged an administrative captain. As a naval lieutenant, ., Henry was stationed at the Ford company, where he taught mathematics to sailors until released from the service to rejoin the company after his father's death...