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...Papal letter which made L'Osservatore a best seller was addressed to Alfredo Ildefonso Cardinal Schuster, Archbishop of Milan. His Holiness had put thunder & lightning into every sentence, thus...
...people, including Governor Pollard of Virginia and Episcopal Bishop Arthur C. Thomson. Great black clouds whipped by a strong wind massed overhead. The President took his place in the open grandstand. Angry lightning glittered across the sky. The singing of "America" was accompanied by the boom of thunder. The wind rose to a shriek. "Our Father Who art in Heaven," began Bishop Thomson as the first splatter of rain fell into the crowd. Before he finished the prayer the heavens had flooded the earth. The crowd broke and ran. President Hoover got soaked. Mrs. Hoover was doused as tarpaulins ballooned...
...corners of the world." And there are birds & beasts without end -sprightly little dogs; pigeons colored like caster eggs; zebras that never quite learn their tricks; a sea lion that balances itself on one flipper; another that plays the "Star Spangled Banner"; the sea elephant Goliath who snorts like thunder and gulps adult fish on his motor truck; horses that wheel through handsome convolutions. As always, the Circus has something to please everybody. Boys who have grown too old to want to run away from home and carry water for the elephants may be inclined to do the same sort...
...White Thunder. From Horse Island, Newfoundland, two planes emerged last week, one with success, one with anticipated failure. After cracking up on the ice off Horse Island, Pilot Robert Fogg and his photographer had worked all night in the biting cold, improvising repairs, and raced home next day to Associated Press and Paramount News with first news pictures of the Viking disaster (TIME, March 23 and 30). From the other plane, a Sikorsky amphibian, ice-wise Bernt Balchen and two companions had scanned the floes in vain for a trace of Varick Frissell, the young Yale graduate who, with...
Frissell, 27, had devoted his vacations to exploring little known parts of Newfoundland and Labrador even before entering Yale with the class of 1926. Last year, having raised $200,000, he took a party of actors aboard the Viking to make a sound-cinema called White Thunder of the sealing fleets. It was for additional shots to complete the scenario that he set out with Cameraman Arthur G. Penrod on the disastrous voyage last month...