Word: balloonists
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Died. General Alfredo Kindelán y Duary, 83, chief of General Francisco Franco's rebel air force during the Spanish Civil War, a Cuban-born marquis who as a young man was an avid balloonist fired up by the writings of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, became Spain's first full-fledged military pilot; of a heart ailment; in Madrid. Though Kindelán was the man in charge in 1937, historians absolve him of blame in the well-remembered bombardment of Guernica, the first time that aircraft were employed systematically to annihilate a defenseless civilian...
...mouth, that he marinates his tonsils in honey. They say that he got his cornball ways from working for the Corn Products Refining Co. plant in Pekin. Ill., his home town, and that his felicity for hot air is a result of his stint as a World War I balloonist...
Stowaway in the Sky is no respecter of age. It will enchant moppet, matron and greybeard with its balloonist-eye view of the fair land of France...
Stowaway in the Sky will enchant moppet, matron and greybeard with its breath-catching, balloonist's-eye view of the fair land of France...
Died. Aida de Acosta Breckinridge, 77, founder of Manhattan's Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration, a stylish Spanish-American who while a Paris schoolgirl became the first woman solo balloonist in 1903 by piloting a prop-powered dirigible across the Bois de Boulogne, displayed the same pluck in her lifelong welfare work, raising more than $3,000,000, though nearly blind herself from glaucoma, for the U.S.'s first major ophthalmological institute, opened in 1929, and in 1945 its first national eye bank; after a long illness; in Bedford...