BERLIN, June 9. -- Having given in our first article for THE NEW YORK TIMES a general survey of our flight to Germany, we will now take up the story in more detail, beginning with the first lap of the trip.

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1927Claudio Gilberto Froehlich, Brazilian zoologist (died 2023)^[†]

Claudio Gilberto Froehlich was a Brazilian zoologist.

1927László Kubala, Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager (died 2002)^[†]

László Kubala was a Czechoslovak and Hungarian professional footballer. He played as a forward for Ferencváros, Slovan Bratislava, Barcelona, and Espanyol, among other clubs. Regarded as one of the greatest players in history, Kubala is considered a hero of Barcelona. A Hungarian national by birth, he also held Czechoslovak and Spanish citizenship, and played for the national teams of all three countries.

1927Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician, 29th Vice Premier of the Republic of China (died 2013)^[†]

Lin Yang-kang was a Taiwanese politician. He was born at Sun Moon Lake during the Japanese rule of Taiwan. Some thought he might be Chiang Ching-kuo's successor as head of the Kuomintang (KMT), but after failing to win the KMT's nomination for president in 1996, he became an independent. Lin rejoined the party in 2005, and died in 2013.

1927Johnny Orr, American basketball player and coach (died 2013)^[†]

John Michael Orr was an American basketball player and coach, best known as the head coach of men's basketball at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Michigan, and at Iowa State University. In the 1975–76 season, Orr was named National Coach of the Year.

1927Eugene Parker, American astrophysicist and academic (died 2022)^[†]

Eugene Newman Parker was an American solar and plasma physicist. In the 1950s he proposed the existence of the solar wind and that the magnetic field in the outer Solar System would be in the shape of a Parker spiral, predictions that were later confirmed by spacecraft measurements. In 1987, Parker proposed the existence of nanoflares, a leading candidate to explain the coronal heating problem.

Headlines from June 10, 1927

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LINDBERGH'S STAND UPSETS CITY PLANS; Committee Again Urges Him Not to Fly His Plane Here for Miller Field Landing. BIG PROBLEM FOR POLICE Fear an Uncontrollable Crowd Might Mar Reception -- Elaborate Precautions Taken. LINDBERGH'S STAND UPSETS CITY PLANS

Mrs. Lindbergh Boards Train For Washington Unrecognized

DISCOURAGED IN FIRST FEW HOURS OF FLIGHT; Then Hit Nova Scotia "Right on the Nose" and Thought Better of Themselves as Navigators. LEFT LAND SAYING, "EUROPE NEXT STATION" " Here Goes Nothing, We Said to Each Other," and as the First Night Closed In on Them the Big Adventure Was Really On.

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