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...front of his airplane factory on the shore of Lake Constance, Switzerland one day last week, beaming with pride as one of his flying boats glided out of a soupy fog to a landing. This was no ordinary flying-boat, nor an ordinary flight. It was the sturdy Greenland Wai (Greenland Whale) completing a round-the-world trip begun 14 weeks ago, with stolid Wolfgang von Gronau and three aides as master and crew...
...originated at List, on the North Sea Island of Sylt, where once was one of the world's biggest oyster farms and where now is the seaplane port of a commercial aviation school of which Capt. von Gronau is chief. All three flights were made in tandem-motored Dornier Wai flying boats. In 1930 it was a five-year-old craft which Amundsen had used in the Arctic and which now rests in a Munich museum. This year and last it was a newer ship, named Groenland-Wal( Greenland Whale). On each flight Capt. von Gronau took a crew...
With the same general purpose as Cramer's, and practically the same route, Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau last week was making his second flight from Germany to the U. S. He flew a Dornier Wai flying boat and was accompanied by the same three youths who, as students, made up his crew last year when he astonished everyone by pressing on from Iceland (his supposed destination) to New York Harbor (TIME, Sept. 8). This year he had hoped to be the first airman to cross the Greenland ice cap, but Cramer accomplished that feat last fortnight...
...Warsaw was seen the best chance ? John North Willys & wife. He is a retired auto tycoon (Willys-Overland), many times a millionaire, a buyer of fine tapes tries. Their socialite daughter married a much-moneyed South American and wai presented to British royalty. They are culturally ambitious. In Warsaw, home of Paderewski, perhaps the grandeur that is the Garretts' at Rome could be duplicated...
Engaged. Wilmarth S. ("Lefty") Lewis, author (Tutor's Lane, A Collection of the Letter- of Horace Wai pole) of Farmington, Conn.; to Miss Annie Burr Auchincloss of Manhattan...