AERONAUTICS: Wives' Words

While flyers scamper here and there, their wives wait, think, sometimes speak their minds. The New York World last week published some interesting views. Excerpts:

Mrs. Marie D. Ames Byrd (Richard Evelyn Byrd flew to the north pole, is now in Antarctica preparing to fly to the south pole): "My most awful nightmare is that the world has suddenly turned star-shaped . . . and that now there are five poles to be discovered." She lives at Boston, her parents' home, or at Winchester, Va., the Byrd home, with their four children.

Mrs....

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