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...tipped it until one wing went under and the plane tilted to about 90°. Mrs. Lindbergh attempted by pressing a lever to inflate a collapsed rubber life belt she was wearing. The belt failed to inflate and, appearing quite unperturbed, she followed the instructions of Colonel Lindbergh and dove into the water. . . ." (Consul General Walter Adams to the U. S. State Department...
...Galleria (Arcade) Vittorio Emanuele near Milan's La Scala Opera. Drinking vermouth con seltz by the hour, the clique finds much to gossip about. In July 1930, its conversation might have run like this: "So! So! A woman in La Scala. . . . Our Colombo, per l'amor di dio, our dove! What will become of the opera, with her in charge? That professoressa? Shocking...
...Galleria watched La Scala under a woman's direction for more than a year. Some finally lent grudging approval. But most did not. Jealously they were satisfied last week, for Anita Colombo, first female director of the old opera, had resigned. The dove was going to fly away...
Unfortunately for the New, Yorker's story, aside from the facts that Mr. Adams is unaware of the difference (if there is any) between a cross potent and a dove proper, and did not write the quoted remarks, he had nothing to do with the correspondence on the subject of an Adams coat of arms. That was left entirely in the hands of his cousin Henry Adams. He simply regretted, speaking for the family, his inability to give what it did not possess. "Curiously enough, in the whole course of his letters to the Harvard authorities the name...
Many of the rebels tried to do the same. As the bombs whistled about their ears they dove gracefully overboard, swam ashore but were captured. After half an hour's bombardment the planes returned to land. The aviators sent word that next time they would really try to hit the fleet. Coquimbo's rebels believed them. They all surrendered...