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...pier a square expanse of water was kept severely clear by patrol boats. Against its boundaries pressed a cluster of excursion boats, yachts, freighters, runabouts, canoes. Everywhere on shore the red, white & green of Italy fluttered overhead. Peddlers hawked pictures of Benito Mussolini, of King Victor Emanuel, of Italo Balbo...
...mighty cheer went up from the seven hills around Lough Foyle. Londonderry's tidy harbor, as General Italo Balbo's seaplane armada circled the city with a fearful roar of 48 wide-open motors. They paraded the sky in platoons of six"black-hulled, red, green, white"each platoon being formed by two tight triads. Soon all were moored, and General Balbo and his officers went ashore in motorboats to tread rose petals, cast by Italian children on their way to Londonderry's Guildhall. The 24 seaplanes rode at moorings, drinking gasoline by the hundred-gallon...
...Jimmy Wedell won the main events of the next two days at 207 and 209 m.p.h. First mishap at the airport occurred when Cinemactor Hoot Gibson's plane cracked up as he rounded a pylon. He was not badly hurt. Chicago had hard luck. It had counted on Balbo's armada and the Spanish Flyers Barberan & Collar (TIME. June 29, July 3) to lend tone to the opening. But Balbo was in Amsterdam and the Spaniards were dead in Mexico. Then a rainstorm cancelled the Sunday program. Before a capacity crowd next day Johnny Livingston, credited with winning...
...resentment of famed oldtime flyers at such tactics is illustrated by an incident following Flyer Balbo's triumphant return from South America in 1931. Having been publicly lionized he presented himself at the door of Gabriele D'Annunzio. Italy's air hero of the War, who lost his right eye in combat and was called "II Duce'' before Mussolini. D'Annunzio coldly refused to see Balbo. Afterward his friends asked: ''Why do you snub him? After all he is 'The Eagle.'" Snorted D'Annunzio: "Eagle? . . . Peacock...
...Balbo has the vanity of a peacock, no peacock has the ability or courage of a Balbo. And if it be true that there are Italians who secretly hope that Balbo will meet disaster, it is also true that Balbo gives them every opportunity to get their wish...