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...Hotel Roosevelt one night last week. There were bronzed "Lon" Yancey, meek-looking Clarence Chamberlin, debonair Col. Fitzmaurice and his rescuer, sturdy Bernt Balchen, nearly bursting out of a tight dinner jacket. There were beauteous Ruth Elder Camp, mop-headed Amelia Earhart Putnam, and the recluse Lindbergh; Armand Loti of the Yellow Bird who came from France to be present that night; Rear Admiral Byrd, Frank Courtney, Harry Connor. (Brock & Schlee, too, would have been there had they not been forced down flying from Detroit to Manhattan.) They were assembled not to be honored, but to honor belatedly Dr. James...
...Pierre Loti," Professor Morize. Sever...
...possible the time spent ashore will include field trips in geology, geography comparative government and sociology. Language courses both on the boat and ashore will be conversational, and the study of literature will be divorced from chonology and allied to geography, so that students will read Loti in Japan Conrad in Java, Kipling in India, the Greek and Roman classics in the Mediterranean Fielding and Thackeray in London."Hamlet" in Denmark...
...entertainment. He began to study Astronomy. When, at 16, he entered the Paris Observatory, he had already written a volume on cosmography. With Aeronaut Godard he ascended in a balloon to observe the heavens, wrote his researches in books that surpassed in popularity the works of Anatole France, Pierre Loti. He founded the French Astronomical Society, edited a monthly review, L'Astronomie. In the War of 1870, he served France, spying upon the Prussian troops with his long telescope. An admirer, one M. Meret, presented him with a country place at Juvisy, where he built an observatory, passed...
...Paris, the august body of the Académie Française met to elect successors to fill the chairs made vacant by the deaths of Frédédric Masson, Pierre Loti, Charles de Freycinet...