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...Europa and the Bremen, low-winged monoplanes that looked like thick prehistoric lizards received their final tuning up. They received mail for the U. S., $18,000 worth of which (value of the stamps) had been sent to the Dessau post office, much of it from stamp collectors addressing U. S. friends asking that the cancelled stamps be returned. Next the pilots loaded in rations prepared by their good fraus: sausage, chocolate, zwieback, hard-boiled eggs, bananas, lemons, orange juice, tea. A bottle of fine brandy was rejected as too heavy. Officials clapped them on the backs; fraus kissed them...
...Europa ran into an inky fog over the North Sea, turned back, tried to skirt the fog; failed; came down near Bremen, Germany, slightly damaged. The pilots said that attempting navigation through the fog would have been suicide...
...room. Among the artists represented are Raphael, Veronese, Titian, Botticelli,, Fra Angelico, Giotto, Pollaiuolo, da Fabriano, Diirer, Holbein, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck, Ribera, Velasquez, Sargent, Zorn, La Farge, Whistler. Three of the most famous paintings are da Fabriano's Madonna and Child, Titian's magnificent Rape of Europa, and the glorious Velasquez portrait Pope Innocent X. It is hoped that the collection will still be available to students and lovers of Art as it always has been under its late mistress...
...Dame Europa floundering in a swamp...
Punch, London's politico-humorous weekly, prodded President Coolidge for offering Europe aid after the reparations tangle had been unraveled. In a political cartoon, Mr. Coolidge is seen standing on the bank while he watches Dame Europa floundering in the reparations swamp. Says "Cal": "As soon as you have extricated yourself from the morass in which you are now wallowing I will be happy, Madame, to summon assistance...