Word: zeppeliner
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...General Overseer Voliva, last week was a bad week for an invasion. Stanch fundamentalist, he believes the world "is square and flat like a sheet of paper," offers $1,000 to anyone who can disprove him. When the Graf Zeppelin started he predicted dire calamity awaited it. Informed that it had docked safely in Friedrichshafen, he sulked and refused to issue a statement. Smart Sister Locy was quick to take advantage of this. As a prime Voliva-baiting tactic she nightly challenged him to debate the earth's shape...
Publisher William Randolph Hearst advanced $200,000 to finance the Graf Zeppelin's globe-trot. In return, correspondents for his newspapers and his alone (in the U. S.) were carried on the flight. When Commander Dr. Hugo Eckener steamed up New York Harbor last fortnight on an official welcoming tug after getting back to Lakehurst, eager Hearst photographers snapped him and snapped him; eager Hearst editors spread the photographs on flaring Hearst pages in the grand finale of Publisher Hearst's world "scoop" of the flight...
...grandest deliberate advertising stunt, grander than the Prince of Wales' warship jaunts to the U. S. and his Dominions, ended at Friedrichshafen last week, when the Graf Zeppelin snuggled into her home schuppen (hangar). "Speaking frankly," said Dr. Hugo Eckener (in Manhattan last week), "the Graf Zeppelin's voyage around the world was to demonstrate the expediency of her mode of travel, to intensify public interest and to get financial support for the construction of the ideal Zeppelin which we know how to build." The trip served its purpose. It led last week to banker negotiations to provide Dr. Eckener...
...kept lookout for the lost Swiss flyers (TIME, Sept. 2) and detoured over Santander, Spain, to salute King Alfonso and Queen Victoria. This detour was a prudent courtesy, because Spain is planning a dirigible hangar at Seville, which will be useful when the Germans establish their Europe-South America Zeppelin line. But some passengers were vexed at the out-of-the-way delay. Their nerves were jumpy because one Frederick S. Hogg, retired Mount Vernon, N. Y., businessman, had smoked a cigar in the ship's lavatory. One spark might have blown up her hydrogen lifting gas. Some...
Married. Capt. Sir George Hubert Wilkins, 40, Australian polar flyer. Graf Zeppelin passenger and Hearst correspondent; and Suzanne Bennett, 28. Australia-born actress (Vanities, The Cyclone Lover); in Cleveland...