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Last week, as he took his ease in a country manor, placid Ziggy did not reflect that almost every dead U. S. producer of gay, tinkling dramatics has died without funds. Instead, he reflected that an airplane, driven by Bernt Balchen, had just made a record driving from Staten Island to Detroit; that the airplane was the very one in which the late Floyd Bennett had tried to reach Greenly Island, and that it contained, by a fortunate exception in the regulations made especially for him, Marie Marrifield, one of his dancers, who was hurrying to see a sick sister...
...Detroit, two fliers arose from sickbeds to join in the rescue: Floyd Bennett and Bernt Balchen. At 5 o'clock of a morning they set out in a giant Ford trimotored liner. At Lake Ste. Agnes, Bennett had a fever of 102, could go no further. He was rushed to Quebec, deathly ill of pneumonia. Commander Richard Byrd came to his side; Col. Charles A. Lindbergh made an inspired flight to bring him succor (see MEDICINE, p. 22). Canada suddenly contained a noble percentage of the world's greatest fliers, for by now Clarence D. Chamberlin had joined...
Having bubbled over with affectionate excitement for Charles Augustus Lindbergh a month before, Paris last week settled down to a steady schedule of festive welcome for its second detachment of transatlantic air guests-Heroes Byrd, Acosta, Noville, Balchen, Chamberlin and Levine. The last two arrived from Berlin via Austria and Czechoslovakia in their Bellanca ship, Columbia. The first four arrived hollow-eyed and shaken after their fog-ridden cruise, anxious night and wet landing in the America. In Paris they had difficulty mixing sleep with hospitality and with their natural inclinations to make the most of a great moment...
...first night in Paris, Pilot Acosta, despite a broken collar bone, continued to pilot his comrades through an informal demonstration at Joseph Zelli's justly celebrated Montmartre night club. Lieutenant Noville, rough, ready and with gay French blood in him was perfectly at home. Blond, blocky Bernt Balchen did not come into his own until his fellow Scandinavians held a special Viking evening for him in the Quartier Latin. Newsgatherers made life hard for Hero Chamberlin by treating Hero Levine, politely yet distinctly, as a large black fly in the ointment. Mr. Levine was a civilian and owed...
Clarence D. Chamberlin, Mr. Levine's onetime employe, was no longer obliged by contract to pilot Mr. Levine and declined the latter's invitation to fly the Columbia home. Mr. Levine approached Lieut. Bernt Balchen, Byrd aide, and Sir Alan Cobham of England, but without success. Then it occurred to Mr. Levine that his homeward pilot might well be a Frenchman. He approached Pilot Pelletier D'Oisy, Paris-to-Tokyo aeronaut. He talked with one-legged Pilot Tarascon, who was to have flown the Atlantic last year with the late Pilot Coli. Finally, after long night sessions, he decided...