Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...times the airship Hindenburg flew the Atlantic. Two Lufthansa flying boats made the trip twice. Beryl Clutterbuck Markham accomplished the hard East-to-West passage solo. Crooner Harry Richman and Pilot Dick Merrill went over and back. Meantime the Blixen-Bjorkvall Bellanca, loaded with ping-pong balls like Harry Richman's Lady Peace, never left the ground. Its take-off for Stockholm was constantly postponed, apparently because the pair were finicky about the weather. This did not bother Baroness Blixen-Finecke. The blonde noblewoman was having so much fun partying on Long Island that she could not find time...
Said he: "What the hell! I better fly solo. I'll take a chance. But having a woman with you ... is too much responsibility. If I get drowned, okay. But if she gets drowned, there'd be trouble...
...Shawn and his company of male dancers are to appear in Symphony Hall tonight, presenting a variety of solo and ensemble numbers. The group has recently had quite spectacular successes on the West Coast. Another event is the performance of Cesar Frank's choral masterpiece, "The Beatitudes," by the Federal Music Project tonight and tomorrow night at Jordan Hall. This work is rarely given and should be well worth hearing...
...lumbered up from Les Barragues, buzzed across to Dover some 250 ft. above the water at an average speed of 45 m. p. h., won a $5,000 prize. Same year, after a serious crackup, he stopped flying, went into airplane manufacture. In 1927, when Lindbergh made the first solo flight from New York to Paris, Pioneer Blériot rushed up, kissed him on both cheeks. Said Pilot Lindbergh: "I shall always regard you as my master...
Over Middleburg, Pa. Pennsylvania's 45-year-old Governor George Howard Earle buzzed about alone in his own autogiro to complete the 50 hours of solo flying necessary for a license. As he landed, he put on the brakes too hard, cracked up in a somersault which ruined his plane, soaked him in gasoline, bruised his hand. Pooh-poohing the injury, he hustled off to a banquet, remarked: "I am used to getting hurt. In 20 years of polo-playing I was knocked out 15 times and sometimes for long periods. I got a fractured skull, a broken back...