AERONAUTICS: The Other Woman

It was erroneously reported last fortnight that Lady Sophie Heath, 30, had arrived in London by train (TIME, May 21). Actually, she did not reach London until last week—and she came alone in her own airplane, completing her solo flight from Cape Town, South Africa, after she had been long delayed by British officials at Cairo, Egypt.

But it did not matter whether Lady Sophie Heath arrived in London by plane, train or horsecar, because her rival, Lady Mary Bailey, 38, had won the race a week before by completing her flight from London to...

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