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Miss Charmion von Wiegand, only daughter of famed Karl H. von Wiegand and, like her sire, a Hearst correspondent, reported last week from Moscow...
...early days of the Soviet regime the mortality among women undergoing in the State hospitals what would be in other countries "illegal operations" averaged 32%. Thirteen years of practice, according to Miss von Wiegand, has reduced this figure to 16%, "a 50% gain in the humane direction since the revolution...
...journey (round trip $6,500).* Passengers and mail were to be transferred at each port of call. No exclusive news privileges, such as the Hearst agencies formerly enjoyed, were given. Three "repeating" passengers, had made previous Graf flights, appeared on the roster: Hearst correspondents Karl H. von Wiegand and Lady Grace Drummond Hay, George Grouse of Syracuse, N. Y.† Noteworthy in the present cruise is the equator-crossing, the first to be made by a dirigible since the German RL-59 flew to East and Central Africa during the World War. In anticipation of the buoyant effect of tropical...
...Only nine passengers made the full Lakehurst-Lakehurst round trip. They were Karl von Wiegand (Hearst correspondent), Sir George Hubert Wilkins (Hearst correspondent), Lady Grace Drummond lay (Hearst correspondent), Robert Hartman (Hearst photographer), Lieut.-Commander Charles Emery Rosendahl (Hearst guest, U. S. Naval observer), Lieut. Jack C. Richardson (U. S. Naval observer), William B. Leeds (rich playboy), Joachim Rickard (correspondent for Spanish newpapers), Heinz von Eschwege-Lichbert (German journalist...
...Germany numbered 17. With them went plenty of food, 12 quarts of Philadelphia whiskey, six quarts of Philadelphia brandy, freight, letters including one on Edgar Allan Poe's 1844 newspaper hoax that a flying machine had crossed the Atlantic in three days. The Hearst people remained behind. Mr. von Wiegand rested. Lady Drummond-Hay cuddled to her parents, Mr. & Mrs. Sidney Thomas Leftbridge, who had just reached Manhattan from London. They found her "two shades darker than she was before she started . . . handsomer than ever." Sir George Hubert Wilkins hurried to Cleveland and shyly married Suzanne Bennett, actress...