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...That is sufficient. Anthony Fiala, 61. is the foremost U. S. outfitter of expeditions. Originally a lithographer and photographer, he sidled into the outfitting business after twice trying to reach the North Pole-with the Baldwin-Ziegler (1901-02) and the Ziegler (1903-05) expeditions. He accompanied Roosevelt through Brazil in 1913-14. Explorer Wilkins found Outfitter Fiala sitting back of a glass partition at the store's rear. The proprietor was not busy. He rarely is these days. The exploring business is at low ebb. And that is strange. Heretofore during business depressions idling executives and fortune seekers...
Last week's job was not the first the brothers had done for the Sinclair company. They put out the Stamper No. 3 fire on the outskirts of Oklahoma City two years ago (TIME, Oct. 21, 1929). Brother Myron has been summoned to blow out fires in Brazil, Argentina. Venezuela, Mexico, Rumania but either failed to arrive in time or, as in Rumania, was balked by red tape. Both are married, have children. When not snuffing wells, they run the M. M. Kinley Co. (air compressor operators, well surveyors...
Green Hell. About a month ago Count Edmondo di Robilant and Mechanic Mauranta Quaranta left Sao Paulo, Brazil in a fast Fiat pursuit plane, to reconnoitre a prospective air line to Bolivia. Forced down on a tiny clearing in a green hell of jungle, near the bank of the Paranapanema River, the two men set out on foot. They lost their map and compass. A box of crackers, their only food besides a jar of marmalade, was consumed by red ants while they slept. Bitten raw by insects, torn by thickets, nearly starved, the men pushed on through the swamps...
...bride was beautiful, her name euphonious Isabelle, Princess of Orleans-Braganza, descendant of the Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil. For this tall, dark-eyed graceful girl the Royalist ladies of Lyons, France, had embroidered with silver palm leaves a gown of shimmering satin designed by Jean Charles Worth, most chipper of Parisian grands couturiers, who hops about and chirps...
Disquieting news from England that George V's lungs were again slightly ailing caused Edward of Wales and Prince George to advance fortnight ago the date of their departure from Brazil. But last week George V told his sons by radio-phone to stay on, said his condition was not serious, indeed that he was almost well...