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Married. Barclay Harding ("Buzz") Warburton Jr., 32, flyer, son of the one-time publisher of the Philadelphia Evening Telegraph, grandson of the late John Wanamaker, onetime husband of Mrs. William Kissam (Rosamund Lancaster) Vanderbilt; and Mrs. Evelyn Hall Pierce, 27, divorced last week from H. Denny Pierce, Manhattan broker; in Chicago...
...heard it from each of you, and yesterday Lindbergh and I toyed with it-a crossing at 25,000 feet; far above an unfriendly ocean; at 300 miles an hour; no fog, no ice. and a glorious sky overhead-well, not yet, but we hope, soon!" The flyers who lauded Dr. Kimball were well aware that his service to them was no simple business of glancing at the sky, reading a barometer and delivering a glib verdict of "go" or "stay." He dislikes the notion that he issues categorical decisions, or that he functions as an official transatlantic ship despatcher...
...others, was missing after the sealing ship exploded. Frissell's father, Dr. Lewis Fox Frissell of Manhattan, had sent them up -Balchen, F. Merion Cooper and Pilot Randy Enslow-because he was doggedly hopeful that his son was alive, and because Balchen is probably the ablest Arctic flyer alive. Said he: "Varick will come back all right. . . . He's been through that sort of thing before. I am optimistic, and I believe I have a right...
...Ernst Udet was an ace second only to famed Baron von Richthofen. An Iron Cross man and squadron com-mander at the age of 22, he was credited with bringing down 62 Allied planes-by himself. Lately he has devoted himself to cinema, was featured as the flyer in Ufa's The White Hell of Pitz Palu...
...International League of Aviators pronounced Dieudonne Coste the world's outstanding airman of 1930. To him for the second year went the Harmon award of 50.000 francs. The awards committee had deliberated long over the name of Coste and Wing-Commander Charles E. Kingsford-Smith, both transatlantic flyers. They chose Coste, they said, because he already held five world records. Other kudos: Frank Monroe Hawks, best U. S. flyer, for his transcontinental speed flights; Amy ("Johnnie") Johnson, best woman flyer, for her London-Australia solo flight; Dr. Hugo Eckener, world's best dirigible pilot. None but Coste...