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...past year has cast several shadows on the fame of Henry Tindall ("Dick") Merrill, whom no less an authority than War Ace Eddie Rickenbacker calls the "best transport pilot in the U. S." Last summer Dick Merrill flew Crooner Harry Richman to England, was forced down in Wales (TIME, Sept. 14). On the return trip he cracked up in Newfoundland, got embroiled in a tawdry, name-calling squabble with Richman, to whom he no longer speaks (TIME, Sept. 28). Back on his regular run for Eastern Air Lines, Dick Merrill next made news by wrapping his ship around a mountain...
...already gathered and was knocking down for shipment at North Beach, L. I. airport. The ships, perhaps of greater value to souvenir hunters than military flyers, included such famed oldsters as Laura Ingall's Lockheed Orion, Powell Crosley's Northrup, seven discarded American Airlines Vultees and Harry Richman's Lady Peace. Most of the rest of the Vimalert shipment consisted of 411 motors and enough parts to make 150 more. All of the disassembled stuff had been sold as unfit for further duty by the U. S. Army Air Corps at Wright Field, Dayton. Last week...
...times the airship Hindenburg flew the Atlantic. Two Lufthansa flying boats made the trip twice. Beryl Clutterbuck Markham accomplished the hard East-to-West passage solo. Crooner Harry Richman and Pilot Dick Merrill went over and back. Meantime the Blixen-Bjorkvall Bellanca, loaded with ping-pong balls like Harry Richman's Lady Peace, never left the ground. Its take-off for Stockholm was constantly postponed, apparently because the pair were finicky about the weather. This did not bother Baroness Blixen-Finecke. The blonde noblewoman was having so much fun partying on Long Island that she could not find time...
Explaining that he had dumped 500 gallons of gasoline during the flight, Flyer Richman snapped: "Five hundred miles off Newfoundland we met a gale head wind which nearly forced the plane into the sea. I believe we would have crashed and drowned had the gas not been dumped...
Sneered Flyer Merrill: "I admit that the situation . . . was such as to scare an inexperienced flyer. . . . Safety required lower altitude, at which I immediately aimed. To my consternation Richman emptied a tank against my protest and wanted to send...