Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both the mile and the two-mile, for Rod Zwirner of Princeton has beaten him in both. In the mile, there is an outside chance that Dartmouth's Doug Brew could scramble the picture, if he deides to double with the 880. Zwirner, Reider, and Brown's Ed Sullivan are the top three in the two-mile...
River estuary to the tiny Portuguese colony of Macao, and before anyone could say "Where's the Dragon Lady?" found themselves heading for Red China in an ancient, twin-engined amphibian PBY, Bush piloting, Travel Agent Sullivan at his side...
...leave the plane," said Bush, "didn't even stop the engines." Almost as soon as Bush's PBY had put down on the strip, he said, a truck appeared and delivered the Chinese boy. Several hours later, Bush, Sullivan and their wide-eyed passenger landed in the water off Macao, and the boy was handed over to a power-operated black Chinese junk that came up alongside the plane...
...clean-cut, distinguished-looking man," though they never got his name. The father offered the two men $10,000 apiece, which they both said they refused, but they did accept $800 gold wristwatches appropriately engraved in Chinese: ". . . You will be remembered forever." Then Bush went on to Tokyo, Sullivan back to Bangkok...
Though Portuguese authorities in Macao denied that any such flight had ever occurred and other officials expressed extreme skepticism, both Bush and Sullivan stuck to their stories. Their watches were all they had as proof. Naturally, they said, they could not produce the father, the boy or the beautiful girl...