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Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler, who has a knack of getting small airplanes into extraordinary places, took a Puss Moth out of North Beach, L. I. one afternoon last week, set it down on the polo grounds of Kingston, Jamaica next morning. The 1,800-mi. flight was the first nonstop from New York, and Pilot Hinkler's was the first land plane to touch Jamaican soil, previous visitors having been amphibians or seaplanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Pilot's Eyes | 11/9/1931 | See Source »

...which killed six. Lately he bought a specially built Lockheed monoplane, flew it from London to Cape Town in 6 1/2 days for a record, despite a crackup in Africa. Last week Commander Kidston and his friend Capt. T. A. Gladstone were flying from Johannesburg to Natal in a Puss Moth biplane. They encountered a duststorm in the Drakensberg Mountains. A wing was wrenched off. Commander Kidston and friend crashed. Both died...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: British Tragedies | 5/18/1931 | See Source »

Riches, Royalty and Regalia were all converging upon the British West Indies last week. The visiting season for U. S. tycoons got under way. Preceded by a brand new Puss Moth plane, 27 pieces of luggage (all stamped PW in large white letters), two sets of golf clubs (one reputedly the gift of Bobby Jones), several cases of bright green beer (artificially colored, brewed in Edinburgh), H. R. H. Edward of Wales and Prince George flew to Paris, there entrained for Santander, Spain, where they boarded the S. S. Oropesa for Bermuda, first stop before their whirlwind tour of Latin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Winter Islands | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

...Goff to make application for the same vacancy. Slightly senior to Senator La Follette in service, Senator Goff was reluctant to leave his Interstate Commerce Committee post where he could take good care of coal problems touching his state. The contest between them narrowed down to a game of puss-in-corner (TIME, Jan. 6). Last week Senator La Follette won the game, became the first and only Insurgent Republican in the Finance Committee corner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: La Follette to Finance | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

Probably the most famed British feline of the 20th Century, and certainly the most misogynous, Cat Mike spent 20 years prowling about the British Museum, chasing away dogs, scratching with savagery at human females who tried to puss-puss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Budge on Mike | 1/20/1930 | See Source »

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