WOMAN AVIATOR HONOURED
'' PARIS. January 8. A jury of journalists awarded the "Sporting Press's" annual Gr.and Prix to Mme. Maryse Bastie for beating Miss Jean Batten's Souih Atlantic record. . • '■' The jury's first ballot gave Mme. Bastie a majority over six other possibles, including M. Francois Lecot, who covered 248,550 miles in a marathon car journey, M. Antonin Magne, world champion road-racer, and M. Jean Mermoz, the airman who was lost in the Atlantic. r
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21987, 11 January 1937, Page 10
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