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While with the 51st Artillery, C. A. C. near Toul, France in 1918, I saw a lone enemy plane attack and destroy a captive balloon, miss a second, destroy a third, return and destroy the second, then fly home. The whole operation required but minutes, was done at a very low altitude (following a power dive) in broad day light, and in spite of the activities of anti-aircraft gunners stationed at balloon positions. I feel the same thing could be done today (TIME, June 23). I remember H. C. Barnes (then Major), onetime commander of our Battery...
Last year John D. Rockefeller Jr. obtained on long term lease from Columbia University three full city blocks in mid-Manhattan (48th to 51st Streets, between Fifth & Sixth Avenues). He offered to incorporate a new Metropolitan Opera House upon it in the midst of a great new commercial-cultural centre. The plan fell through. Mr. Rockefeller was left the embarrassed landlord of three city blocks and many of the best known speakeasies in Manhattan. Three weeks ago it was announced that Mr. Rockefeller had assembled collaborators: Radio-Keith-Orpheum, National Broadcasting Co., Radio Corporation of America. Not an opera house...
...large banking institution, and on the roof a large restaurant will be built with an outdoor promenade running around the entire building. This oval building will extend to a magnificent garden plaza that will be cut through the development and will run parallel with Fifth Avenue from 48th to 51st Streets . . . the most impressive boulevard of its kind in the world...
Esthetic as well as prodigious sounded the scheme announed over a year ago by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to include a new home for the Metropolitan Opera in a huge commercial-cultural centre envisioned by him for midtown Manhattan (between Fifth and Sixth Avenues, 48th and 51st Streets). He succeeded in leasing the land from Columbia University for a long period at some $3,000,000 per year (TIME, Dec. 16 et ante). But the Metropolitan Opera's backers had other plans in mind. The Rockefeller scheme languished. Last week Manhattan heard that Mr. Rockefeller had been persuaded that...
...this season, the 1933 mallet men have lost two of their matches and won the other. They were defeated by Andover 7 to 5 and by the 51st Brigade 8 to 7, but they conquered the Free Lancers 6 1-2 to 6. At present, Captain F. D. Sharp, coach of polo, is pointing his men for the Yale game. This match will come Saturday, March 8, in the Armory...