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Pleasure Trip. With his valet and two Dutch pilots,. Van Lear Black, chairman of the board of the Baltimore Sun, left Amsterdam, Holland, last week in a Fokker monoplane to fly to the Dutch East Indies. Leisurely, he hopped to Budapest-thence to Constantinople, Aleppo, Bagdad. . . . Crash & Fire, Three miles from Le Bourget (Paris air port) a heavily loaded biplane floundered down upon a wheat field, smashed its landing gear. There was an ear-splitting explosion, followed by the crackle of flames. From each side of the plane leaped two burning figures. They rolled in the wheat, saving their lives...
...Dougherty, Professor of Assyriology at Yale and annual Porfessor of the American School of Oriental Reserach in Bagdad, will speak on "An Archaelogical Tour in Southern Babylonia" at 4.30 o'clock in the Lecture Room in the Semitic Museum. The lecture will be illustrated and is open to the public...
...invitation of the Fogg Art Museum and the Semitic Museum, Professor R. P. Dougherty, of Yale, Annual Professor for 1925-26 in the American School of Oriental Research, Bagdad, will give an illustrated lecture on "An Archaeological Tour in Southern Babylonia." This lecture will be given in the Semitic Museum next Monday afternoon, at 1:30 o'clock, and will be open to the public...
...been made of the matter. Perhaps the ladies will have their way and perhaps they will not. At best it's a fifty fifty chance, which is not a very satisfactory state of affairs. They have been very foolish. Only a peek at the histories of Rome, France, or Bagdad would have shown that their method is not the way to sway Empires. A whisper in the right ear at the right time has always been much more effective than mountains of resolutions and cohorts of deputations. Publicity where an appointment is concerned is nearly always fatal. The ladies...
...across the Mediterranean to Italian Tripoli upon the Afric shore. Thence across Libya to Egypt and Cairo, where Lady Maud donned her afternoon dress for tea at Shepherds Hotel. Next day the Hercules soared over the Holy Land, descending at Ziza in Palestine. Thence the 543-mile flight to Bagdad was taken in a single jump. Persia and "the road that leadeth to Isphan" loomed...