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...praise to Pickwick stages, and a friendly reprimand for not blowing their horns earlier and louder...
They left Honolulu. Their radio worked beautifully. It sent a babble of reports every few minutes, and the world knew that they were fighting clouds, wind and storm for more than 30 hours. They grew haggard. Suva waited. They saw Suva. Then with engines roaring but little louder than the crowd, they landed, their longest overwater flight accomplished, their gasoline almost gone...
...Lorenzo has flown with Jessica and the old man knocks at the door of his house, there is no crescendo from wonder to premonition to fear to sorrow, no last, wild "Jessica!" He waits, one hand in his old brown gown, even drifts into reverie. He knocks again, no louder. As his knuckles strike, the curtain slowly falls...
...everywhere on the front of the stage. Applause was thundering. Miss Bori was bowing. The audience was standing up. Miss Bori tossed one of her bouquets to a woman standing in the second row of the orchestra. The woman caught it gracefully. She, too, bowed. The applause was getting louder and louder. Much of it was meant for the woman in the second row. Her name, as everyone knew, was Geraldine Farrar, 46, onetime darling of the diamond horseshoe...
Then the naval mutinies broke out in the south of France (TIME, Oct. 10) and the voice of the French press grew louder. The Government, earnestly desiring to avoid a row, according to Foreign Minister Aristide Briand, was last week compelled by force of public opinion to demand unequivocally the recall of Soviet Ambassador Rakovsky from France...