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Guilty Dummies Sirs: As a TIME subscriber, and a cover-to-cover reader, I want to enter protest against the last paragraph of your interesting and vivid report and description of the goodwill tour of 1,000 businessmen, 20 mi. at sea off Norfolk, Va., which appeared in your issue of Sept...
...Road. Canadians were betting even money on Bluenose although it looked as though Captain Pine had the best crew. Aboard the Thebaud were Captains Powers, Johnson, Mallock, Sparrow, Prior and Domin-gos-masters all. On a day of white piling seas the two boats put out around the 37-mi. course. Though a 14-knot breeze was blowing, Captain Walters of Bluenose scoffed the idea that the weather was rough. Rough for amateur yachtsmen, perhaps, with their useless boats that have to duck into harbor whenever a breeze strikes...
...Lieut. Harry Connor, retired U. S. Navy flyer who with Roger Quincy Williams flew the old Bellanca-built Columbia non-stop from Long Island to Bermuda and back (TIME, July 7), last week flew the Columbia from Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, to Tresco, one of the Scilly islands, 25 mi. off Cornwall, England. Theirs was the fifth heavier-than-air crossing this year, the 26th in history. They spent the night in that Arthurian Land of Lyonnesse, then continued to Croyden, their real destination. First to greet them there was Charles A. Levine, passenger on the Columbia when Clarence Chamberlin flew...
Fast Frank Hawks. Captain Frank Monroe Hawks, air publicist for The Texas Co.,* last week flew the 90 mi. from Philadelphia to New York in 20 min.?an unofficial record. In the past fortnight he also: flew Detroit to Manhattan (483 mi.) in 2 hr. 41 min.; Boston to Manhattan (190 mi...
Marshall Field III and his bride of two months (former Mrs. Dudley Coats of London), honeymooning through Africa in an amphibian airplane which crashed in the surf at Sidi Barrani on its way to them three weeks ago, crashed last week 850 mi. south of Khartoun en route to Kenya Colony. All escaped injury...