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...Bermuda, up from the new airport on coral-girt DarreH's Island rose the four-motored, 18-ton flying boat Cavalier for its first test flight since arriving in sections from Great Britain two months ago. For 26 minutes the big craft drummed over the harbor at 185 m.p.h. with only its crew aboard. In a few weeks, Imperial Airways will start it buzzing back & forth to the U. S. in a series of tests preparatory to passenger service this summer...
Loitering through the beautiful coral islands of the Great Barrier Reef, they put in one day at a small island inhabited by the Wilson family, who lived on shell fishing. Oldest Daughter Lucy was breathlessly beautiful, listened wide-eyed and adoring to Author Flynn's descriptions of the magical outside world. But when she took him to a secluded pool and jumped in trustingly with nothing on, he decided that innocence disarms and went to say goodby. Lucy did not see why she could not go with him, swam out to the boat after them, scratched and bit while...
...Coral Sea they hit bad weather. The Sirocco leaked like a screen, was ready to go to pieces until they let it run with the gale. After three days of it, more dead than alive, they reached New Guinea, found a native pilot and set out for Port Moresby. Two days away, in a sudden cyclone, the Sirocco was smashed to splinters on a reef, "kindly, lovable old Dook" drowned...
Last week Mr. Doherty was pleased to learn that the annual Roosevelt Birthday Ball, which he and shrewd Publicity Man Carl Byoir started rolling four years ago when they were working together on Coral Gables promotion, had again earned many thousand dollars for the care of infantile paralysis patients. Far from pleasing, however, was the news that the Public Utility Act of 1935, which he spent $200,000 to defeat in Congress, had been partly upheld in New York Circuit Court (TIME, Feb. 8). With rough weather ahead for Cities Service, from Temple Hospital last week old Mr. Doherty made...
...coral reef surrounding an ocean depth of some...