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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Wednesday, June 1, 1994

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 1, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Irl 72, to attempt across from wire reports a 12-year-old girl who last year flew across the United states will try to conquer the Atlantic this week. Vicki Van meter is scheduled to take off saturday from her Home Airport in mind Villa pa., on a two Day flight across the Ocean with Pilot Curt Arnspiger of Groveport Ohio by her Side. She would be the youngest girl to Fly the Atlantic he said. To prepare for the flight Vicki has been commuting to Columbus Ohio every weekend for More than a month. Groveport is 10 Miles Southeast of the City. Arnspiger a 38-year-old real estate agent has logged about 1,600 hours at the controls and received his instructor rating last week enabling him to accompany Vicki. Harmony the Cessna 210 modified with an extra 100-gallon fuel tank is to carry the pair from Meadville to Glasgow Scotland. Arnspiger bought it for this trip. When Vicki a then age 11 a and her parents stopped in Columbus on her Cross country flight Arnspiger greeted her. They began talking of a transatlantic flight. Arnspiger and two of his instructors Dick Willis and Mike Riley of Columbus teamed up to coach Vicki. The Cessna 210 is heavier and More difficult to Han die than the Cessna 172 that Vicki flew to California a i have never seen anyone adult or child with that amount of experience handle a 210 that Well a said Willis an instructor with 20 years experience. A night to howl about Columbia pictures will debut its new movie Wolf starring Jack Nicholson Michelle Pfeiffer and Kate Nelligan in Boston on june 13 As part of a fund Raiser for the Walden Woods project. The showing at the Loews Cinema 57 will follow a $250-a-plate dinner to Benefit the environmental group at Bostons Park Plaza hotel. Actor Ted Danson and recording artist Don Henley of the just reunited eagles will pin Nicholson and other members of the cast at the premiere. Henley founded the Walden Woods project in 1990 to preserve land around Walden Pond in Concord mass., made famous by 19th-Century naturalist philos Pher Henry David Thoreau widely regarded As the to thereof the . Environmental movement. Marshall out of Hospital director and actress Penny Marshall was released from a Hospital in East Hampton n.y., on monday after she was admitted with Chest pains the Day before. Marshall 50, had been playing Tennis at the Long Island estate of Revlon chairman Ronald Perelman on sunday before she was taken to the Hospital by Amu Vicki Van meter 12, flanked by flight instructors Dick Willis left and curl Arnspiger tends in Columbus Ohio in front of the Cessna 210 she Hopes to Fly Acra the Atlantic starting saturday. Arnspiger will accompany it Cal on the trek from Meadville pa., to Glasgow Scotland. Make up for lost time. For starters they arc scheduled to Fly to new York from Seattle to a dinner and Jam session tribute to Jimi Hendrix who died in London in 1970 at age 27. At the time a unknown causes Quot including drugs were among reasons Given for his death. It is such persistent rumours his family is attempting to erase. The tribute will be june 12 at . In Manhattan. Proceeds from the event will go toward for our children a Sake a new York based nonprofit organization that sends inner City youths on chaperoned summer trips to Africa to learn about their heritage. Rahic havens buddy Miles and members of Pink Moyd Ore among those scheduled to perform. A Jimi would have loved it i think Quot Hendnix Wight said. A we always Felt the Media Wasny to fair to him. 1 wish they could live seen him As my brother. Ill always remember him dressed up like Batman laughing and screaming and chasing me around our apartment. Lance. Officials at Southampton Hospital refused to say whether Marshall was treated. Marshall was a weekend House guest of Perelman. She planned to Fly to California this week for the premiere of her latest film Renaissance Man Marshall starred As Laverne a 1950s brewery worker in the to series Laverne and Shirley from 1976 until 1983. She has directed several popular movies including big awakenings and a league of their own Hendrix tribute set they have been a Low profile family for the past Quarter of a Century but James Allen Hendrix and Janie Hendrix Wright father and sister of Jimi Hendrix the late Rock guitarist and composer intend to 1rr starting today and every Day for the next week Ypuh la find extra pages in your daily stars and stripes dedicated to coverage of a Day commemorative events in France Italy and the . In addition to exclusive staff written stories and photographs Well provide you with in depth coverage of president Clinton s a Day visit. Starting today the Sfer Sand Fries  
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