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...about $150). Poet d'Annunzio. now practically toothless, bald as an egg, also contributed his War cigarets (bought by a nephew of Il Duce for 1,500 lire - about $75), a piece of cloth on which he had painted a design "with a violent hand." and a bewitched bird. Interviewed upon landing at Rotterdam, bushy-haired Albert Einstein remarked: "Nice people, those Americans. . . . When some one is dead in America, he does not exist any more. No one talks . . . about him. Sometimes the Americans are just children . . . flocking to see me, as if I were a miraculous animal...
...said the teacher, "it is a bird...
There were special arrangements from one end of Mother Nile to the other. Wherever the big British bird alighted for a few minutes to leave a passenger or pick up mail, in popped a Briton to felicitate and annoy King Albert. At Wady Haifa a small special British launch took His Majesty off the air liner promptly, but other passengers waited a long while for the company's big launch. When they were brought ashore at last, there stood King Albert royally rampant...
...again next day flew the British bird. Suddenly, to His Majesty's further annoyance, three British Air Force fighting planes appeared, escorted the Imperial Airways liner safely to Butiaba. There, with a British band blaring "La Brabanconne" and "God Save the King" a right hearty British welcome was extended by His Excellency the Governor of Uganda, Sir William Cowers...
...year. At Niagara, about 10% are killed, 30% injured. In 1924 and 1927, several thousand went over. The dead and injured usually drift to the Canadian side of the rapids. The dead are sent to charity. The injured go to the Buffalo Zoo or to Jack Miner's bird sanctuary at Kingsville, Ont. (TIME. Jan. 26, 1931 et ante...