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Soviet Trade Union Chief Nikolai Shvernik (chairman), Communist Party Secretary (and No. 2 Bolshevik) Andrei Zhdanov, Writer Alexei Tolstoy,* Aviatrix Valentina Grizodubova. It was the first time in 25 years that a high church official had found himself in such company...
Married. Beryl Markham, aviatrix, first woman to fly the Atlantic alone from east to west, writer (West With the Night); and Raoul Schumacher, publisher's editor (he edited her book); day after she divorced Mansfield Markham of London; in Laramie...
West With The Night is a tough, un even, undisciplined, sometimes remarkable, often annoying book-chiefly about Aviatrix Beryl Markham's experiences in the hot blue skies and green hills of Africa. Author Markham reveals herself as a self-made extravert, a museum sample of 20th-century primitivism at its simplest. Her harsh, keen story is a sort of Diana myth brought up to date...
America's 3,258 women pilots last week got an invitation to spread their wings for Britain. In Manhattan famed Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran, who flew a bomber to Britain last June, announced that she was setting out on a tour of ten U.S. cities to recruit female flyers for the British Air Transport Auxiliary. The project was blessed by CAA and the War Department, also by Jacqueline's great & good friends, Mr. & Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt...
Laura Ingalls, pint-sized, trophy-winning aviatrix, was jailed by the FBI in Washington as an alleged propaganda agent for the Nazi Government. Speaker at many an America First gathering, peace-pamphlet "bomber" of Washington in 1939, Isolationist Laura was charged with having been on the Nazi payroll (and failing to register as an agent) since Aug. 1. She took up flying in 1928, began setting records in aerobatics in 1930. She was the first woman pilot to fly east-west nonstop coast to coast, bagged a Harmon Trophy in 1935 "I was a free agent and took no orders...