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Last week, the leaning tower of Pisa, famed piece of medieval architecture, was in danger of toppling over. The annual story from Rome said so. Italian engineers also said...
...Pisa, the Cathedral, and, of course, the Leaning Tower are the things to see. I should like to get some motion pictures of them. On a recent visit to the Leaning Tower, reported to be on the verge of toppling over, I asked the old guard if there was any danger. 'Oh no, sir,' he said, 'this tower has been here for eight centuries...
Thursday, July 30--Via Pisa to Rome...
...Jane and Edward Williams, Shelley's constant associates at Pisa, called him "Ariel." Said Jane: "He comes and goes like a spirit, no one knows when or where." (Ariel, in medieval folklore, was a light, changeable spirit...
...Pisa in Northern Italy, Roald Amundsen is testing the two special machines built by the German designer Dormier. In a few days he will fly north by way of Zurich, through Germany and Norway to Spitzenbergen. Thence to the North Pole and Alaska. In the barren wastes of polar territory, a forced landing means almost certain death...