Word: umbertos
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Through the streets of Turin last week The Sacred Winding Sheet (also called The Holy Shroud) was borne triumphantly in a silver chest to The Chapel of the Winding Sheet in Turin cathedral. Escorting it walked Crown Prince Umberto, Crown Princess Marie Jose, Princess Mafalda, Yolanda and Bona, the Dukes of Apulia, Genoa, Spoleto, Pistoia Ancona, Bergamo and the Count of Turin...
...rehearsed, the radio play presented, among other scenes, one in which Soviet officials debated whether they would be justified in sending the Red icebreaker Krassin at great expense to rescue General Umberto Nobile and other survivors of the Italian polar dirigible flight...
Maddalena. Nothing could have been more commonplace to three men in a sea plane that started a routine flight from Milan to Rome last week. All of them had crossed the South Atlantic with General Italo Balbo's roaring Triads (TIME, Jan. 19). Col. Umberto Maddalena, at the controls, was Italy's most decorated airman, most famed next to Balbo. He it was who, scouring the Arctic wastes in 1928, first sighted General Umberto Nobile and his party from the wrecked dirigible Italia, stranded on the ice near Spitsbergen. Sitting behind Col. Madda lena in the seaplane last week...
...Hubert, financed chiefly by Lincoln Ellsworth who flew across the North Pole with Umberto Nobile and the late Roald Amundsen in the dirigible Norge and who may be a passenger in the submarine, plans to try his craft out under April ice off Halifax. Then he will proceed by way of London, Bergen and Tromso to Spitsbergen, whence he hopes to proceed mostly under water to Bering Sea. (In 1928 he flew an opposite course between those two regions...
Died. Pietro Cardinal Mam, 73, cosmographer, critic of Fascism, friend to the Royal House of Italy; at Pisa. Given his red hat along with the late great Cardinal Mercier, twice a candidate for the Papacy, he performed the marriage ceremony between Crown Prince Umberto of Italy and Princess Marie José of Belgium last January...