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...first international underwater telegraph cable was laid in 1850 across 25 miles of English Channel from Dover to Cape Gris Nez, France. The first transatlantic cable was opened by Queen Victoria and President Buchanan in 1858. Since then, in all parts of the world, some 3,500 cables, totaling 300,000 miles in length, have been put in operation. They lie flat and tensionless on the floor of the ocean, avoid undersea peaks and canyons, go no deeper than about three miles, cost around $2,000 a mile. Inside each cable a copper conducting wire, 1 in. thick, is protected...
...Basque, a nephew of a Bishop of Burgos, Luis Quintanilla was at one time a student at the Jesuit University of Deusto near Bilbao. Before the World War and before he was 20, he lived with the late Cubist Juan Gris in a leaky studio on the Place des Abbesses. Paris, learned to paint, he says, by "talking about it all the time." Little known in Spain until 1927, when he returned to Madrid after two years in Florence, he gradually became recognized as one of the finest artists of the people since Goya. While he was in prison...
...Gris Nez, France, last week 22-year-old Thomas Blower, Nottingham factory hand, slathered himself with grease, slid into the chill water of the English Channel. Plowing the waves like a torpedo, he swam eleven miles in five hours, was four miles off the Dover breakwater in nine hours, met a strong southwesterly tide and was three hours covering the next two miles, finally waded ashore between Dover and Folkestone after 13 hr. 29 min. Twenty-third to complete the channel swim, Blower was 2 hr. 45 min. slower than the Bohemian mechanic, Venceslas Spacek, who set the record...
Thirteen years ago, when tubby, profligate Sultan Ahmad, Shah of Persia, was debauching along the French Riviera French newsorgans came out with the old French proverb: La mdt tous les chats sont gris. This means literally: "At night all cats are grey." A punning interpretation is: "At night all Shahs are drunk. In 1925 Sultan Ahmad Shah was toppled off the throne, and swashbuckling, self-made Reza Shah Pahlavi declared himself the King of Kings. From the outset he pompously made it clear that his country would stomach no further insults of the drunken Shah variety. Last year the King...
...quite different sort is Ruben Dario's vividly descriptive "Sonfonia en Gris Mayor" (Symphony in Gray). In this is given a very real picture of the sea on a glassy calm day and of an old salt who sits at the sea's edge endlessly watching. Again, to show his versatile nature, Dario has written a poem called "Friso" (Frieze). Here classical images and classical scenes are handled in a manner reminiscent of Keats' "Ode on a Grecian Urn". Some of the best poems in the collection are by Ruben Dario...