Word: ward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bravo for TIME's impartial presentation of air travel sentiments. Fanny Ward [whose daughter, Lady Plunket, was killed in an airplane crash (TIME, April 4)] is entitled to all the world's sympathy . . . but she should not take it upon herself to prejudice an increasingly air-minded generation...
...Randolph Hearst had a shock. Word was brought him that a few miles away, Britain's top-notch socialites, Lord & Lady Plunket, arriving as guests in one of his newspapers' airplanes, had crashed and burned to death. Lady Plunket, 38, was the only child of Actress Fannie Ward who, at 66, still weighs 100 pounds, still wears size twelve clothes, still advocates her "cult of youth." and is known in England as a U. S.-born "perennial flapper...
Last week, departing for England on the Queen Mary with the ashes of her dead, Fannie Ward paused on the pier to sob into a microphone: "My friends of America. . . . I'm taking my two loved ones on their last journey . . . and I say this to every mother and father in the world: Don't let your children go in the air unless you want to suffer what I am today...
...those two pronouncements U.S. airlines could have hugged Mother Dirlam and choked Mother Ward, for the greatest obstacle in the development of air travel is the public's fear of flight. To counteract the fear propaganda of Fannie Ward and other parents who do their broadcasting less publicly, United Air Lines last week had a new project afoot. It was a child's book called Air Babies, mothered by Elvy Kalep, a pretty Estonian aviatrix who once aspired to fly the Atlantic, colorfully. illustrating the adventures of two cheerful little winged sprites, Speedy and his sister Happy-Wings...
Herbert G. Olson, 45, owner and manager of Briggs and Briggs died Saturday afternoon of a heart attack. The funeral will be held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at Ward's Funeral home in Malden...