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...Author. Commander Dyott, 47, was born in Manhattan but is an English citizen. During the War he served with the famed Dover Patrol of the Royal Naval Air Service. He is married to an American, Persis Stevens Wright. The expedition in search of Fawcett was his ninth to South America. Last year the Royal Geographical Society, of which he is a member, gave him the Gill Award in recognition of his explorations. Among his idiosyncrasies: he likes work, likes photographing wild life, likes to pun in print. Other books: Silent Highways of the Jungle, On the Trail of the Unknown...
...Dover, England, one Bourh Tovi, Greek silk and cotton smuggler, fined $500. said he, wore 27 silk slips between his shirt and undershirt because he was cold...
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...Bronx pool, finally being pulled out in a state of limb-swollen collapse. Worthy water-mates for her roamed also about the beach-an Egyptian, black and gigantic, named Ishak Helmy and a German whose name everyone forgot. All then, male and female, proposed to swim to Dover-and back, said Fattest Myrtle; but the press of France, of England, of the U. S.. of the world, would give neither a fig nor a fish for their story...
Twenty years ago this week Louis Bleriot, Frenchman, flew the first airplane across the English Channel, from Calais to Dover.-* Just now Louis Bleriot is in Paris receiving plaudits for the anniversary. From Paris he will go to London for more plaudits and a pleasant sight-a model of his plane prominently displayed in the historical aviation exhibit of London's International Aero Exhibition, which the Prince of Wales opened last week...