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...into a big Bellanca monoplane at Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklyn, early last Saturday morning, felt that they were witnessing something unusual to the point of eccentricity. General Francesco de Pinedo was taking off alone for Bagdad, 6,300 mi. away. The cockpit of his ship, the Santa Lucia, was a museum of gadgets and curious supplies-eight watches, two colored kites, fishing tackle, a stomach pump to draw liquids from six vacuum bottles, a fresh air mask, a siren and water-squirter to wake up the pilot if he dozed. He was going to sit over the oil tank...
...runway, said later that he felt sure de Pinedo would stop after his overladen ship, reeling drunkenly under 1,030 gal. of gasoline, veered almost off the concrete as it got up to 80 m.p.h. But the man in the cabin was obsessed. He straightened the Santa Lucia and roared ahead. He lifted the tail...
...cockpit of the Bellanca, named Santa Lucia, he rigged an overhead water tank, a siren and a time clock. When the General feels drowsy he will set his controls, set the clock for ten minutes and doze off. At ten minutes the siren will howl, the tank will squirt cold water in the General's face. Siren and water spout are also adjusted to shriek and squirt if the plane should veer from her course, droop from her altitude. Said General de Pinedo...
Meanwhile the purest peace reigned in the palace of King Carol. No voice had risen to connect him in any way with the Skoda scandal, and his slack-chinned younger brother Prince Nicholas suddenly decided that a year and a half of morganatic marriage with svelte Jana Lucia Deletz was enough (TIME, Nov. 23, 1931,). Following the promptings of Queen Mother Marie he cast Jana aside last week, made peace with King Carol, arranged to return to Bucharest, resume his royal rank...
...crowd in the Auditorium saw as well as heard Lily Pons. After the Lucia Mad Scene she whizzed there with a motorcycle escort, received a chrysanthemum "key to San Francisco's heart'' from its Florist-Mayor Angelo J. Rossi. The popular demonstrations reminded oldtimers of San Francisco's last great musical excitement, twelve years ago when chunky Luisa Tetrazzini sang for 100,000 at Lotta's Fountain (TIME...