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[[newspaper clipping]] NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1932 Air Mail Director Honored by Women Flyers [[image - photograph of two women and a man at an award ceremony]] Herald-Tribune photo – Acme [[caption]] Miss Dorothy A. Lyon, new commander of the Betsy Ross Corps, pinning the badge of the order on W. Irving Glover, Assistant Postmaster General, at a reception held yesterday in honor of Mrs. Dennis E. Nolan, who appears at the left [[/caption]] [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] NEW YORK CITY JUNE 5, 1933 Aviatrix Steals Show Crashes Into 'Four Trees' There would seem to be little connection between the Annette Gibson races for women aviators at Floyd Bennett Field yesterday and the Four Trees night club off Sheridan Square, but actually the air races stopped the show at the Four Trees Friday night. It came about through the presence in Ed Winston's club of Manila Davis, West Virginia aviatrix, who still is a little peeved because the Metropolitan press said she had been lost three days and she actually was delayed only three hours by three forced landings during the Cleveland Derby in October, 1931. Miss Davis came to New York for the Gibson races, and dropped into the night club for a few moments with a party. It was during the floor show, and Miss Davis, who had just come from the field, was wearing her solo wings on her coat. She was sitting at a ringside table. Alice Cavin, who does an Oriental dance, spotted the wings on Miss Davis' coat. Now Alice is a girl anybody might suppose has enough to do, without taking on any more occupations. She conducts a fencing school. She teaches dancing. Practically every day she rides "Catch Me" in Central Park. Alice hails from Texas, which explains why she owns her very own pony – that would be "Catch Me." When Alice is not teaching fencing, instructing her dance class or riding "Catch Me," she is playing tennis or golf with her boss. (Tch-tch!) Or else she is taking violin lessons from Henri Winn, who leads the orchestra. Or she is swimming at the Park Crescent or Park Central pool. So intent, indeed, is Alice upon exercise that at 3 o'clock in the morning, when she is through work, she walks her police dog pup, Buck Wuck, all the way from Sheridan Square to Broadway and Ninety-second street, where she lives. A body might suppose, then, that Alice would not be over-eager to take on new activity, but she is. And when she spied the wings on Miss Davis' coat, she came right out of the ancient world into today and danced, as the number ended, to Miss Davis' table. The outcome of it was that Alice is going to wear a helmet, and Miss Davis is going to wear a mask. In accordance with the most modern notions on barter, Miss Davis agreed to teach Alice to fly if Alice would teach her to fence. While Alice was taking on these new responsibilities, however, Winn had to fiddle assiduously to make up for the gap in the floor show which the Four Trees patrons had come to see. [[/newspaper clipping]] [[clipping]] [[image - two portrait photographs of women]] [[caption]] MANILA C. DAVIS Flatwoods, W. Va. MAUDE ELLEN DAVIS Flatwoods, W. Va. [[/caption]] [[/clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] 'American Flora' Tea Set Is on View at Reception Betsy Ross Corps Examines Gift for White House The "American Flora" silver tea set, made for the World's Fair in Chicago in 1893, and which is to be presented to the United States government for use in the White House, was displayed yesterday at a tea and reception for the Betsy Ross Corps of women flyers at the home of Mrs. Opal Logan Kunz, 166 Second Avenue. Mrs. Dennis E. Nolan, wife of Major General Nolan, commander of the 2d Corps Area; Mrs. William W. Phelps, wife of Rear Admiral Phelps, commandant of the 3d Naval District, and W. Irving Glover, Assistant Postmaster General for air mail, were guests of honor. Receiving with Mrs. Kunz was Miss Dorothy A. Lyon, of Kansas City, newly elected national commandant of the Betsy Ross Corps; Mrs. Peggy Remey, Mrs. Laura Morgan Jackson and Miss Pansy Bowen. Mrs. Lyon presented a Betsy Ross pin to Mrs. Glover. [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] ... The first New York hotel to appoint an "Aviation Representative" is the Hotel Paramount ... Miss Manila Davis, aviatrix of note, a member of the general staff of the "Betsy Ross Flying Corps," the "National Air Mail Pilots Association," the "National Aeronautic Association" and other important flying societies, has been appointed by the Paramount to take charge of this work. Miss Davis, in addition to being an expert aviatrix, having studied Aerodynamics, Meteorology and Navigation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... has also done concert work, orchestra directing and radio broadcasting ... being among other things a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music ... New York's new Mayor, Joseph F. McKee, is taking [[/newspaper clipping]] [[business card]] CHICKERING 4-7580 MISS MANILA DAVIS AVIATION REPRESENTATIVE HOTEL PARAMOUNT 46TH ST. WEST OF BROADWAY NEW YORK [[/business card]] [PAGE 118]
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Newspaper clippings' mentions of Miss Manila Davis are underlined in ink
