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...planes that rest in the North Atlantic ooze, or form a base for the architecture of the coral polyps of the Pacific, little is said. Nobile and the Italia are covered with an Arctic silence. The wreaths give place to the laurels...
...program will be given at the Pops concert in Symphony Hall at 8.15 o'clock tonight: Marche Militaire Schubert Suite, "Peer Gynt" Grieg a. Morning Mood b. Death of Aase c. Anitra's Dance d. In the Troll King's Grotto Boston Square and Compass Club Chorus a. O. Italia, Italia," from "Luerezia b. Rolling Down to Rio German c. Moonlight and Roses Lemare Overture to "Oberon" Weber Prelude to Act III. "Traviata" Verdi Prelude to "Lohengrin" Wagner Overture to "William Tell" Rossini
...Milano complaining of heavy winds and encrusting ice. These difficulties had interfered with Pilgrim Nobile's previous trip to Leninland (TIME, May 28). Suddenly the messages ceased . . . fears deepened . . . in San Francisco an S.O.S. was picked up from a Vladivostok station, a message asking help for the Italia in English, French, Italian. No position was given...
...flew in the dirigible Norge over the North Pole. Seventy-one freezing hours of flight cooled the entente cordiale between the Italian and his companions. Last week the Italian took off from Kings Bay, Spitsbergen, accompanied almost entirely by Italian scientists and an Italian crew, in the dirigible Italia, to explore the unknown regions around the North Pole for the glory of Mussolini and his Fatherland...
Leaving Kings Bay the Italia sailed over a freely moving sea, unhampered by ice; headed north over the Franz Josef Archipelago for Tepliz Bay. Here the Sella Polare, the Duke of Abruzzi's ship, once wintered, here Francesco Querini heroically lost his life in the Cegni polar expedition of 1909, here in loyal commemoration Nobile dropped a symbol of St. Mark upon the ice. Low over the ice flew the Italia, through a dense fog, into a head wind, its speed cut to 40 miles, ice forming on its sides. Gradually the air cleared, visibility improved. Lenin Land, discovered...