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...whom his father has called an "idealist" (TIME, Oct.-n), reached less violently for laurels as he zoomed a tri-motor Savoia-Marchetti transport airplane over a 621 mi. (1,000 km.) closed circuit course breaking three speed records for planes carrying up to 4,409 (2,000 kg.) Ib. payload. His speed was 267 m.p.h., four miles faster than the previous record which he himself established last July. With him flew his flying instructor, Squadron-Commander Colonnello Attilio Biseo, who when in Rome acts as personal pilot to his pupil's father...
...butcher in the Kensington market [Philadelphia]. The whole multilocular cystic mass with the accumulated fluids tipped the scales at 132 pounds. As soon as the weighing was completed, a nurse dumped everything down a privy well. The tub weighed 16 pounds, leaving a weight of 116 pounds (52.6 Kg.) for the tumor. It has occurred to me many times since writing that report in trying to recall all the circumstances that due allowance was not made for the fluid used in irrigating the abdomen, and that the weight stated, therefore, cannot hold and should not be cited as 116 pounds...