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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Relatively easy, though not simple, were those stipulations for Dr. Eckener. With passengers, plus air mail, plus ex- press, Zeppelins can be made to pay handsomely he thinks. He tightened his tie, which slips loose on his thick neck, looked at his Manhattan timepiece (he carries three watches, showing Friedrichshafen. Greenwich and New York time), arched his mephistophelian brows, and hastened to the first Hamburg-American liner available for Hamburg. A Hamburg-American it had to be, for that company aided Graf Zeppelin in her world flight. The first boat was the slow New York, which takes ten days...
...fire; they do not weep." He considered God his only equal. He lived precariously, striding along the Nietzschean tightrope. For all his self-sufficiency Beethoven could "never see a pretty face without being smitten." But a love-affair, he boasted, never lasted longer than seven months. He loved three cousins, his aristocratic pupils, Tesi, 25, Pepi, 21, and passionate Giulietta, 16. "by turn and all together." June Prime. The great eight-noted motive of the Eroica, clue to Beethoven's per- sonality, battles, loves, multiplies, resurrects itself, dances, dies. The Eroica is "one of the Great Days of music...
First fired of the 80 events was the Sobel trophy match, side arm competition for policemen. On one of the ranges that project from the three miles of firing line along the lakefront, was set up a double row of false house fronts. Targets swung in the gaping windows and doors, popped up and down in the street. Five keen-eyed Portland, Ore., constables shot them down like fugitives, scored 41 points out of a possible 50, won the match. A four-man team match of the slow and rapid pistol firing was won by New York City policemen...
Grinning but disappointed were Serg. Jens B. Jensen, U. S. Cavalry, & Capt. Walter A. Wood Jr., U. S. Engineers, when Serg. Carl J. Cagle, U. S. Marine Corps, snatched from them the Leech Cup. All three had scored a perfect 105 but Mariner Cagle's shots had bored closest to the centre of the bull...
...smoked with candle flames so that a finer "bead" may be drawn. Shoulders are padded with sheep hide and rags to fend the recoil. Windage and elevation are shrewdly calculated, lucky pieces rubbed. Classic is the tale of one Infantry marksman who would not change his underclothing during his three weeks at Camp Perry, fearing it would affect his condition in the Team shoot. The great event, shot at 1,000 yards, is usually held early in the morning, before the sun brings heat waves to interfere with vision...