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Small wonder attention is being given to the commercial possibilities of such craft. Commander Frank McCrary, skipper of the ZR1, sees " a revolution in transportation technique." Captain Anton Heinen, German test pilot and consultant in the construction of the ZR1, predicts the elimination of disasters due to poor piloting and improper construction-the Captain has carried 100,000 passengers in the air without a scratch-and the ousting of ocean liners by dirigibles. Certainly an air journey of five days from San Francisco to New Zealand instead of 22 by sea is tempting...
There was big bidding for the Brownlow pictures sold in London. Duveen offered ?14,700 for Van Dyck's Anton Triest. As the hammer was falling Knoedler challenged. Bidding continued for 90 seconds. The picture went to Duveen...
That musician who aroused perhaps the greatest discussion during the season in New York is Anton Biloti, the pianist. This young man, an Italian-American reared among the bourgeois respectabilities of University Heights, first gained publicity as a young boy by constructing a miniature trolley line on an uptown hillside for the amusement of himself and the neighborhood youth...
...Anton Lang, who will visit this country with 100 other actors of the Oberammergau Passion Play, earned 27,000 marks after rehearsing eleven months. Shoes cost 50,000 marks a pair, with other living costs in proportion. The players are forced to their American tour by their financial straits. They have again refused a $1,000,000 movie contract...
...Anton Hulman, winner of the high and low hurdle races in the Freshman meet last May will this season be the Blue's fastest man in both events. He will have as his running mate Milliken, who collected-five points in the two Freshman hurdle races last year...