The Independent - 25.08.2019
SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 2019 The female captain who piloted a flight on 9/11 Beverley Bass was flying one of 38 planes forced to land i ...
doubling its population. The response of the islanders on “the rock” that took them in has been immortalised in Canada’s now lon ...
department, a pilot for two corporations and night flights for Rockwell, before she built up enough flight hours to get her inte ...
wore nail polish, jewellery, make-up. I always say, I’m a girl first, I just happen to be a pilot.” So far, the lyrics of “Me an ...
them $1.4m in scholarship money. I don’t know why our percentage is still so small. And just like when I started, there are stil ...
Without access to television, radio or any news, they had no inkling of the enormity of the event. “You have to understand, you ...
Bass with the mayor of Gander, Claude Elliott (Beverley Bass/American Airlines) Meanwhile, the aircrafts were grounded. Includin ...
Newfoundlanders, provided they kiss a fresh cod fish. But Bass only learnt about all those events years later. It’s a strange qu ...
to return to my family. I knew it would always be a part of history.” Bass with Karen Mills, manager of the Comfort Inn. Bass se ...
Bass and her husband at the Give Back Breakfast (Beverley Bass/American Airlines) But she and her husband headed off to Gander, ...
The show is about Bass’s life, and since its debut, her life has become about the show. Now, semi-retired at 67, she has been to ...
SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 2019 WANDERING MIND In the latest in his series of reflections on (not so) memorable pathways, Will Gore can’t ...
As it happens, I probably shouldn’t have gone. My girlfriend at the time had wanted me to go to Australia with her that summer b ...
SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 2019 A love letter to the em dash Punctuation invariably arouses heated pedantry, but few marks divide opinion ...
largely undefined. Sometimes it indicates an afterthought. Other times, it’s a fist pump. You might call it the bad boy, or cool ...
she had fallen “into headlong love with the em dash. I love the way it can create the feeling of a fractured/incomplete/interrup ...
SUNDAY 25 AUGUST 2019 PUSS IN SHOOTS Long before #catsofinstagram became an internet hit, Walter Chandoha enraptured the public ...
Long before the internet and #catsofinstagram, Chandoha was enrapturing the public with his fuzzy subjects. From advertisements ...
Paula and Kitten, taken in 1955, is one of Chandoha’s most recognised photographs A gang of ominous looking felines is one of th ...
A quartet of Siamese kittens in a basket was taking in New Jersey in 1962 ...
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