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With a wave of his straw hat, gracious, gangling Director George Harold Edgell, of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts stepped into the gondola of a police motor-cycle at Cunard's Pier in East Boston last month and went popping through the Sumner Tunnel to Huntington Avenue and the Museum. Behind him in two bunting-draped trucks rumbled the most valuable collection of Japanese art ever to have left Japan. It was the nucleus of an exhibition which opened this week, and which should rival in importance London's great Chinese art exhibition of last winter...
...which is punished with a fine of 10 lira (80?) was suspended for the night. After filing in a long sacred procession through the Church of Il Redentore, some 10,000 Venetian youths and maidens of the rabble rowed out to the Lido in the year's greatest gondola fleet, slept on the beach under the moon, returned to Venice next morning. To bambini born of this Hymen Harvest, mellow Venetians give the name "Moon Children...
...April 1931, Herbert Hoover was just back from his first and last visit as President to the Virgin Islands ("a poorhouse" to him). Same month, eight young Negroes were sentenced to death at Scottsboro. Ala. for raping two white female hoboes in a Southern Ry. freight gondola (TIME, June...
Suddenly the top of the bag pimpled, popped. An instant later the whole crown split open, and 350,000 cu. ft. of helium roared out. An Army sergeant on the gondola understood the crisis first, frantically yelled, "Run! Run! She's busted!" Before any of the 20 men under the bag could do so, they were flattened by nearly three acres of billowing, stifling cloth...
Appalled, the rest of the ground-crew, led by Balloonists Anderson and Stevens, dashed into the still-settling debris, speedily dragged out all the buried men, found none injured. The gondola, too, survived safely, but the bag, ripped, tumbled, knotted, was badly damaged. As the crowd on the rim of the bowl filtered away in the dawn, the camp gloomily began to pick up the pieces of one more false start into outer space...