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Replied General Balbo: "I greet you all as a commander and a companion. We are ready with tranquil spirit. I am not unmindful of danger?. . . . But these are not inferior to our destiny...
...squadron's seaplanes to send to the girl. The horseplay was interrupted when Col. Pellegrini mustered the men of the squadron into line on the quay, facing the 25 big seaplanes bobbing at moorings. The stage was set. Upon it stepped the imposing figure of General Italo Balbo, Minister of Aviation, supreme commander of the Atlantic flight. To General Balbo, Col. Pellegrini said...
...human race, bless us, we beseech Thee, this aircraft . . . that those who flying in it put themselves under the care of the Blessed Virgin, may speedily arrive at their destination and may return home unharmed. . . ." After last farewells, the visitors were herded out, the gates were locked-with General Balbo inside, and the pilots impatiently awaited the order: "Decollare!" (take-off). But ice around Labrador delayed that order...
...which Gershwin will play the piano while his friend William Daly conducts; also a Negro night when the premiere of a symphony by Florence B. Trice will be played and the soloists will be Tenor Roland Hayes and stocky 19-year-old Pianist Margaret Bonds. When General Italo Balbo and his 24 aviators arrive from Italy they will be given a special performance of Aïda. Hero of the World's Fair concerts is grey-haired Conductor Frederick August Stock who is giving his services. The opening night was sweltering hot but Conductor Stock seemed unmindful...
Loyola University (Chicago, Ill.) Commander Italo Balbo, Italy's Air Minister, leading an Italian air squadron to the World's Fair (in absentia) LL.D...