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Because she lost so many pilots and planes in trials, Italy did not enter the 1931 Schneider trophy race which England won at 407 m.p.h. Since then the three surviving members of her team kept pegging away at that record. Two-Captain Berrini and Lieut. Neri-died trying to beat it. Last week the last member. Warrant Officer Francesco Agello, whipped a Macchi 72 seaplane over the measured course at Lake Garda on the eastern border of Lombardy. Timing cameras recorded his average speed unofficially at 423.7 m.p.h...
...since had its eye on the record of 408.8 m.p.h. held by Lieut. George H. Stainforth. To attack that record, the air force developed a Macchi seaplane powered by two Fiat 1,500 h.p. engines in tandem. To fly it. Air Minister Italo Balbo delegated a new pilot named Neri, a minuscule man whose exploits since he joined the force a short time ago earned him the nickname "Death Cheat...
...finger-shaped Lake Garda on the Lombardy border one day last week Lieut. Neri climbed into his seaplane, flashed around & around the measured course. Electric timing cameras caught him at 430 m.p.h. as he entered his last lap. Then, with an official world record within a few miles of his grasp, Lieut. Nerfs plane shot askew of its course. One of the flippers had been wrenched from its tail. "Death Cheat" Neri kept his ship in control, landed safely...
From Rome last week issued a report that a Lieut. Neri of the Italian Air Force had streaked around Lake Garda in a seaplane at 463.26 m. p. h. Fastest speed heretofore recorded was 408.8 m. p. h. by Lieut. George H. Stainforth of Britain's Royal Air Force as an aftermath to last year's Schneider Trophy Race. Lieut. Neri's trial was unofficial...
...eminently salable-for the proper price. They were pictures-anyone-would-like-to-own, ranging from 15th Century Venetian Cima de Conegliano to ultra-modern Pablo Picasso. Included were important works by such headliners as Rubens, Fragonard, Van Dyck, Gainsborough. Gilbert Stuart, Cezanne, and those favorites of jocular undergraduates, Neri di Bicci and Pieter de Hooch. It was impossible to decide which was the most important Back-room Masterpiece, but almost certainly the most expensive was the Wildenstein Galleries' Fragonard, Le Pont de Bois, for which they would like to receive about $200,000. Almost alone of New York...