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Mrs. Wilson's first flight. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, widow of the war-time president, completes her first airplane flight. She was in the ship piloted by Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, who made a dawn-to-dusk flight from New Orleans to New York and return. A stowaway, Miss Marie Reynolds, extreme right, was discovered and treated royally. From the left: Mrs. Eddie Rickenbacker, wife of the flier; Mrs. Eugene Meyer, wife of the publisher; Capt. Rickenbacker, Mrs. Wilson and Miss Reynolds, who was carried aloft as she sought an interview with Capt. Rickenbacker for her school paper. 1/16/35

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