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...book is not only an old-fashioned story but also a lovingly detailed celebration of the north country. Norman, whose first novel, Northern Lights, was about Canada too, revels in remote places. Their names in The Bird Artist -- Mint Cove, Show Cove, Richibucto, Trepassey -- provide a particular delight, as do the names of birds and men. The strange birds give the narrative its own kind of plumage: teal, merganser, kittiwake, cormorant. When the men of the town are searching for a dinghy lost in the fog, they track each other by calling out names: " 'Richmond Fauvette, this is Oliver Parmelee...
Twelve men* had spanned the North Atlantic in heavier-than-air machines: no woman had succeeded. Great interest, therefore, centered on the flight of Miss Amelia ("Lady Lindy") Earhart (TIME, June 11) when at length her trimotored Fokker Friendship left the water at Trepassey, Newfoundland, headed toward Britain. Would she disappear from sight, sharing the fate of Mrs. Frances Wilson Grayson, the Hon. Elsie Mackay, Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim ? Would she turn back as Viennese Lilli Dillenz had done? Would she be forced down as was Ruth Elder...
Miss Boll, on Long Island, consoled herself with Oliver C. Le Boutillier and Captain Arthur Argles, War aces. Miss Earhart, at Trepassey, Newfoundland, admired the scenery. Both made false starts; both panted at the leash of bad weather...
...minutes before noon the Friendship swooped down into Halifax harbor, Nova Scotia. Her crew went to a hotel and early to bed. Miss Earhart refused to tell newsgatherers what kind of powder she used. Up early they were, and again eastward, only to land at Trepassey, Newfoundland, to fix a slight leak in the gasoline tank...
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