Lisbon. Through a cordon of vociferous police a band of students sprang. Shouting greetings they swung cloaks off their shoulders and spread them for the feet of Miss Ruth Elder. Touched, she thanked them; excited and faintly afraid of the pushing Portugese she clung to the arm of Fred Morris Dearing, American Minister to Portugal. Lisbon revelled. As she stepped to the mainland of Europe (14 days almost to the hour after taking off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, with pilot George W. Haldeman for a transatlantic flight which ended when they...
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