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...winners of last year's U. S. meet. After 40 hr. in the air they were forced down with a defective valve near the Polish-Latvian frontier-about 921 mi. from Basle. Pilot Van Orman's Good-year VIII was second with 830 mi., France's Petit Mousse third with 739 mi. Near Warsaw the champion Navy bag drifted so low that laborers seized a drag rope, were hauling the ship down until angry Pilot Settle threw a sand bag at their heads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Bennett Balloons | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

...Paul Gustave Dore's monumental illustrations of the Bible and of the Inferno of Dante Alighieri gave a large part of the last generation a thoroughgoing picture of Heaven and Hell. Last week at the Petit Palais in Paris, a representative exhibition of his work marked the centenary of his birth. Born in Strasbourg, he never took drawing lessons, made fair pictures at 6, relying on an amazing photographic memory. From his versatile illustrations for Rabelais. Dante. Cervantes, Ariosto, La Fontaine, Dumas. Hugo, Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, et al., he earned in 35 years of work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Nebraskans v. Beard | 8/8/1932 | See Source »

Marshal Foch, took his seat as an "Immortal" but the ludicrous thing that occurred was not made known. Passed a decent interval. Last week Paris was at length permitted to chuckle hugely over what le petit General said when he took his seat. "Messieurs!" cried General Weygand in such ringing, parade ground tones that even aged, deaf Immortals had no need to cup hand to ear, "Messieurs, I had pre pared a speech of more than six pages* to thank you for the honor you have done me, but I left it on my study table...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Immortal | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

...mentioned "Entree ... Henri II ... en la ville ... de Paris", Paris, 1549, containing a fine equestrian portrait by Jean Goujon; Aesop, "Les Fables", Paris, 1542, a unique first edition; Homer, Les Dix Premiers Livres de I'lliade", Paris, 1545; Ovid, La Metamorphose, Lyons, 1557 with woodcuts by "Le Petit Bernard"; and Geoffrey Tory's Aediloquium, Paris, 1530, illustrated by the author. Holbein's Old Testament and Dance of Death, although the work of a German artist, were printed on French soil. Of the Dance of Death there are on exhibition the first edition and two other editions in each of which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOGG MUSEUM EXHIBIT CONTAINS BOOKS FROM 15TH, 16TH CENTURIES | 3/19/1932 | See Source »

Thus M. Laval, a typical petit bourgeois, nailed his political flag to a popular French policy perhaps impossible of realization. Already the British Conservative Party (an overwhelming majority in Parliament) has served notice that German private debts must have priority over Reparations-in flat contradiction of M. Laval (TIME, Nov. 23). Already the propaganda guns of U. S. and British private lenders to Germany were blazing away last week with the statement in various forms that an attempt to give Reparations priority would destroy the whole fabric of German private credit, bankrupt the Fatherland and defeat its own purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Laval Entrenched | 12/7/1931 | See Source »

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