7 NOVEMBER 1931, Page 3

Flying Youth If Miss Salaman is really " the nineteen-year-old

debutante " the papers unanimously declare her to be (her mother, who calls her twenty-one, must be mis- informed), she might almost be described without dis- respect as the flying school-girl. At any rate she has flown to such purpose, while still in her novitiate in the air, that, leaving England on Friday night (only an hour before Saturday), she had got to Cape Town by Thursday morning, having beaten the previous record by over a day. That is an astonishing achievement, of which English womanhood, or rather English girlhood, may be justly proud. Not a wholly decadent genera- tion after all.

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