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...Uruguay soccer team: by 6 goals to 1, a semi-final match with Jugoslavia in the world's soccer football championship at Montevideo. Other finalists: the Argentine, which defeated...
Persons who know the ropes in South America predicted that the 15 German girls who left Berlin last week will land at Montevideo, Uruguay, whence they will be smuggled across the border into Argentina, and will then start dancing in Buenos Aires at one of the Bix Six cafes: Ta-Ba-Ris, Armenonville, Casino Pigall, Maipu Pigall, American Dancing and Folies Bergere. Of these the first two are comparatively high class, with champagne obligatory at $13 per pint or $23 the bottle; but at the last four mere "drinks" are obligatory at between $2 and $3 each, the hostesses gulping...
Wilkins. Another glad runaway from Antarctica last week was Sir George Hubert Wilkins. He and Pilot S. A. Cheesman made a few observation flights in the neighborhood of Deception Island this season. As they approached Montevideo, Uruguay, aboard the Norwegian steamer Henrik Ibsen last week, they loosed a small seaplane and flew 125 miles to shore, to thorough baths, to city clothes and square meals...
Roaring westward over the South Atlantic flew a big white biplane, carrying Uruguayan Major Tadeo Larre-Borges, French Lieutenant Leon Challes. They were trying to fly from Seville to Montevideo, Uruguay. One thousand miles from the coast of Brazil, their radio messages stopped coming through. Anxious watchers wondered how long the flyers' 1,400 gallons of gas, 50 gallons of oil, would keep them up, figured on 50 hours. At last, many hours behind schedule, the plane crashed near Maracuja, Rio do Norte, Brazil. Both flyers were slightly injured, the plane wrecked...
...Montevideo to Manhattan. From Montevideo, Uruguay, a Colonel Cesario Berisso, Major Roget Otero and Mechanic Dagoberto Moll took off last week for a 15-stage flight via the Argentine, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico City, Laredo, New Orleans, Atlanta, Washington, to Manhattan, U. S. Army flyers two years ago included most of this route, on their goodwill voyage. So did the Italian flyer de Pinedo. But not yet has a South American accomplished...