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Last week Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski cabled Manager George Engles of Manhattan that he would definitely return to the U. S. next autumn, make his seventeenth U. S. tour, postponed this year on account of an appendectomy (TIME, Dec. 2). Pianist Paderewski has accepted, despite his 69 years, a coast-to-coast tour involving some 75 concerts. The only dispensation he asked: "a mild winter...
When the white whale left, some observers thought it had headed up-coast toward New Bedford, whale-conscious Massachusetts town. Others thought it went across Narragansett Bay toward Block Island. Fanciful New Englanders said it might be the ghost of famed Moby Dick, returning to visit the region which he and Author Herman Melville put into literature. Whale-wise salts declared the creature was moping, as if it were sick...
Berlin to Rio. Excited Spanish soldiers bungled the refueling at Seville. Instead of the expected northeast trades off the African coast, came head and beam winds. Torrential downpours near the Equator bore down like tons of added ballast. But the Graf Zeppelin plowed steadily along her new trade route to Brazil, landed at Pernambuco after 62 hours. The time from Friedrichshafen to Rio de Janeiro was six and a half days. Besides being her sixth Atlantic crossing the flight was a two-point triumph for the Graf: 1) proving the dirigible equal to tropical weather; 2) making Latin-America...
Three track teams from the Pacific Coast, all considered to be serious contenders for the title, will be in town today prepared to take workouts for the I. C. 4A. track meet which takes place in the Harvard Stadium on Friday and Saturday of this week...
...clock tonight in the Baker Library of the Business School a lecture entitled "The Cinema as Art", which he has previously delivered before student audiences at the University of Berlin, the Sorbonne, Cambridge University, Columbia, Princeton and Yale. He is on his way to the west coast to direct a moving picture under a Paramount contract, which will probably deal with some feature of modern American life. Tickets for tonight's lecture have been distributed, but the doors will be thrown open at 7.45 o'clock...