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...carried a supply of champagne in which to toast this event, the poem soars into the very zenith of satiric sacrilege and "Champagne Popery."* Coldly, factually the Soviet press service Tass presented details on the basis of which cannibalism might be imputed to Captains Filipo Zappi and Alberto Mariano (respectively Pilot and Navigator of the Nobile dirigible Italia), who set off to tramp across the ice to land with the Swedish meteorologist Dr. Finn Malmgren, but were alone when rescued (TIME, July 23). Tass reported that, on the day before the rescue of Zappi and Mariano, a Soviet plane photographed...
July 11: Soviet Pilot Chukhnovsky with crew of four, takes off from Krassin, sights Capts. Mariano & Zappi and the body of Malmgren. He is forced down on North East Land. Marooned, Pilot Chukhnovsky directs rescue of Malmgren party by radio...
July 12: Krassin rescues Capts. Mariano & Zappi, foodless for 13 days; pushes on to Nobile camp, picks up five castaways, ill, half-crazed...
...Finn Malmgren, Swedish meteorologist, injured, with Capts Mariano & Zappi, pilot and navigator, quit Nobile camp, start to walk to land...
Died. General Pedro Nel Ospino, onetime (1922-26) President of Colombia, onetime Minister to the U. S.; son of Dr. Mariano Ospino, also onetime (1857-59) President of Colombia...