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...Caruso of the period was the Italian eunuch-Francesco Bernardi Senesino, whose misfortunate voice earned fabulous sums at London's Royal Academy of Music. Lustier London wits like Henry Fielding began poking fun at this artificial art, inveighed against London's "wanton, affected fondness for foreign musick," with its "squeaking recitatives, paltry Eunuchs . . . and trills of insignificant, outlandish vowels...
Last year Pan American Airways' Samoan Clipper, out of Samoa for Auckland, N. Z. on the first commercial flight between the U. S. and the Antipodes, crashed, killing famed Pilot Edwin C. Musick and her six-man crew. Despite this shattering setback, Pan American stuck stoutly to its plan for a regular San Francisco-New Zealand passenger and airmail service. It ordered six Boeing 314s, biggest plane ever assembled in the U. S. (payload: 40 passengers, 5,000 Ibs. of cargo), earmarked three for its transatlantic service, the rest for its Pacific venture. Because Kingman Reef and Pago Pago...
Fortnight ago the trim, silver-bodied California Clipper winged out of San Francisco Bay on its first dress rehearsal. At its controls, in luckless Pilot Musick's place, was tough, tanned oldtimer Captain John Tilton; in her vasty belly a ten-man crew, 18 assorted observers. Some 17 hours later in Honolulu she stopped briefly, knuckled down to the remaining hops. Last week, seven days, some 7,500 miles from starting point, she taxied across Auckland, New Zealand's handsome, big harbor, fit as a fiddle, her test passed 100%. Proudly wired Pilot Tilton: "We received a warm...
...campaign to enroll volunteers got off with a typically British start, a mass meeting in London's Albert Hall, where 10,000 were addressed by Air Raid Precautions Chief Sir John Anderson. Sir Walford Davies, Master of the King's Musick, led a singsong, urged the audience to sing loud because the rally was being broadcast "and probably Hitler will pick it up." When it came to singing the Lambeth Walk, he insisted on more umph...
...coral reef, enough food for 15 people for a month. But not all the gadgets in the world could save her if she smacked the water hard enough to crack her seagoing hull-or if she caught fire while dumping gasoline, as the Samoan Clipper, with Captain Musick and a crew of six, did last January off Samoa...