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...TIME, October 11, under AERONAUTICS it is stated that Lieutenant Castro of Chile was the first of all flyers to cross the Andes.-In reality the first man to do this feat was Lieutenant Antonio Locatelli- Aug. 1919, of the Italian Aviation Corps...
...have established chamber music within earshot of the very lobbies of Congress and actually under federal patronage was a feat for no ordinary woman. Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge of Pittsfield. Mass., and Washington is certainly unique. Discerning travelers along the road from bustling Pittsfield to smart Lenox, Mass., cannot have failed to learn that the considerable eminence known as South Mountain, by which they must pass, is mostly Mrs. Coolidge's property; that the spacious house on its summit is hers. The smaller white stone building on the mountain's slope is where, seven years ago, she housed...
...season had begun. Mozart came first, an early overture long buried away in the library of the Paris Conservatoire, charming, tuneful, immature; "Pan," a rhapsody by U. S. composer William Schroeder, difficult, cleverly constructed, tedious; Dukas' "Sorcerer's Apprentice," brilliant, biting; Beethoven's "Seventh Symphony," great feat of the afternoon, magnificently played...
Once there was a little Victorian boy whose father wanted him to become a great statesman. He was sent to Rugby, to aristocratic Trinity College, Cambridge. Then, in order that he might meet statesmen who really mattered, he went to Germany. He became almost intimate with Bismarck, a great feat for a stripling. The Kaiser himself was reported to have listened without displeasure to the conversation of young Austen Chamberlain...
...many people know, I was, before my elevation, wiry, supple. I walked many miles a day and often climbed upon the mountains. Last week I showed that I still have the use of my legs by climbing up into the Dome of St. Peter's, a feat rarely accomplished by any of my predecessors, obese or otherwise. Although a strong wind was blowing, I sat for about an hour in an armchair on the balcony, watching some workmen build the new Vatican seminary...