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...gawky, Lincolnesque John Gilbert Winant last week lay over water: by Clipper to Lisbon over the Atlantic, from Lisbon by British ferry-plane, passing a Lufthansa Fokker enroute to Switzerland, to Bristol over the Bay of Biscay. As the plane circled to land at the Bristol airfield, a guard of honor ringed the field. For John Winant was going to London to visit the King as Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
Across Portugal and northwestern Spain blew a violent hurricane. In Lisbon's harbor it smashed ships, fishing vessels and a British flying boat, sank a Portuguese warship. Near Zumaya it blew a train off a trestle. In the harbor of Santander an oil tanker exploded, pitched against a dock; fire spread from the dock to the city. Fanned by the wind, the flames cut a swath across Santander, destroyed the custom house, the Bank of Spain in the heart of the city, the 13th Century Gothic cathedral and hundreds of houses. Before the fire...
Died. Dom José Telles da Gama, Marquis of Niza and Count of Vidigueira, 64, last direct descendant of the great Portuguese explorer, Vasco da Gama; in Lisbon...
Although he left for Europe considerably before Winant, President Conant arrived at Lisbon at the same time; Conant traveled to Portugal by beat, whereas Winant flew by clipper. Both men, together with Benjamin Cohon, New Deal brain-truster, flew to Bristol, England, on Friday...
...Clipper was trying a new route. For the first time she dipped far south of her usual Lisbon-Azores-Bermuda route, went via Portuguese Guinea and Trinidad. The southern route was nearly twice as long; yet the Clipper carried double her usual load of men and mails for the U. S. Reason: instead of carrying extra fuel to buck wintry, 50-mile westerlies, the plane coasted along on a firm east wind. It was the trade wind, friend of mariners since Columbus...