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Died. Ella Nirdlinger Nathan, 70, mother of Theatre Critic George Jean Nathan; after an illness of several months; in Philadelphia...
Brazil had been long apotheosizing Alberto Santos-Dumont. First called "Father of Aviation," he presently became throughout South America "first man to fly," despite his own deprecation of the title. "First man to fly" was Frenchman Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier, who went up in a captive fire-balloon in October 1783. "First man to fly in a powered heavier-than-air craft" was, as every schoolboy knows, Orville Wright along the beach at Kitty Hawk, N. C. in 1903. Alberto Santos-Dumont first got off the ground with a box-kite type of powered machine in France three years...
...AFTERNOON-Ernest Hemingway-Scribner ($3.50). FOCH- Capt. B. H. Liddell Hart- Little, Brown ($4). GEORGE GERSHWIN'S SONGBOOK - illustrated by Alajalov - Simon & ($5)- GROVER CLEVELAND - Allan Nevins Dodd, Mead ($5). HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION, Vol. I. - Leon Trotsky - Simon & Schuster ($4). INTERPRETATIONS - Walter Lippmann Macmillan ($2.50). JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU - Matthew Josephson - Harcourt, Brace ($5). THE JOURNAL OF ARNOLD BENNETT Vols. I & II- Viking ($4 each). THE LETTERS OF D. H. LAWRENCE edited by Aldous Huxley - Viking ($5). LIVES - Gustav Eckstein - Harper ($3). THE MARCH OF DEMOCRACY - James Truslow Adams - Scribner ($3.50). MARK TWAIN'S AMERICA - Bernard...
...flat (Opus 81b); Hindemith, Third Quartet; Brahms, Quartet in C-minor (Opus 51). Messrs. Valkenier and Lannoye, horn players of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be the assisting artists at tonight's concert. The members of the quartet are Norbert Lauga, first violin; Clarence Knudson, second violin; Jean Cauhape, viola; and Yves Chardon, all of whom are also members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...words last week. POW! WHEEE! FUMP! For three long hours manhole covers burst from their settings, hurtled through the air, followed by 20-ft. comets of flame. The first covey of covers was flushed on the Boulevard St. Denis. Soon they were popping on St. Lawrence Boulevard, Jean Talon, St. André and De Fleurimont Streets. Mile away, an isolated gas station at the corner of Cremazie & St. Lawrence Boulevards blew up with a roar. A precise ambulance interne noted that the manager when picked up had been blown just 35 ft. Two miles further out the manholes of Guin...