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Your story about Amelia Earhart Putnam's flight to Ireland (TIME, May 30) notes that Mrs. Putnam slept at Ambassador Mellon's house "even as Lindbergh slept at Herrick's." From the enclosed newspaper clipping you will observe that even as Lindbergh borrowed Ambassador Herrick's pyjamas so did Mrs. Putnam beg a nightgown of Lady Astor...
...General Balbo's side spoke Portugal's Admiral Gago Coutinho (Lisbon-Brazil 1922) whose government had given France the Azores concession, and Harold Gatty of the U. S. (round-world 1931). A vote was called by Chairman Sir Arthur Whitten Brown (first Atlantic flight, Newfoundland-Ireland 1919, with the late Sir John William Alcock). While French and Spanish delegates sat mute the rest of the Congress upheld Balbo's open-door policy...
Theses that have been published in the past are "Poetical Intexication", by W. N. Bates '30, "Shakespeare and the Ireland Forgeries", by Derk Bodde '30, "The Respectability of Mr. Bernard Shaw" by H. A. Brinser '31, and "The Creed of a Victorian Pagan", by Robert Peel '31. Publication of honors theses is made possible by a grant from the visiting committee of the Board of Overseers...
Word came that she had landed safely near Londonderry, Ireland, somewhat north of her course. Exulted Publisher Putnam: "Whoops, my Dear...
...squalls, perilously close to the water. Her altimeter failed. A broken exhaust ring spurted flame. Gasoline from a leaky gauge dripped down her neck. But still she flew low because "I'd rather drown than burn up." Pushed north by beam winds she met the shore of Northern Ireland, set her ship down on a farm field...