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...musical institution quite as deserving of pilgrims from afar as Germany's annual Wagner festival at Bayreuth or the famed Opera at Paris (lately mediocre indeed) or La Scala at Milan (which badly misses Conductor Arturo Toscanini). To rustic Ravinia on Chicago's North Shore (20 mi. out) go more and more visitors each year, to hear what is easily the best summer opera to be found anywhere in the world...
...length is 10 ft., width 4 ft. 4 in. Slipping easily through traffic, turning on a 16-ft. radius, parked wherever ten feet of parking space are available, the Austin offers obvious advantages with respect to handling in heavy traffic. Its sponsors also maintain that it will go 40 mi. on a gallon of gasoline, will run from 20,000 to 40,000 mi. on a set of tires. The Austin will reach a speed of more than 50 m.p.h...
First Race. On a 23-mi. triangular course started: Whirlwind, owned by Paul L. Hammond's and Langdon Ketchum Thome's syndicate, a beamy, heavy boat with a white hull and green underbody, a pointed stern and "No. 3" on her sails; Enterprise, No. 4, owned by the Vice Commodore Winthrop W. Aldrich and Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt syndicate, with Mr. Vanderbilt sailing her; Weetamoe, owned by Rear Commodore Junius Spencer Morgan's and George Nichols' syndicate, white and bronze, No. i; and the old boats, Gerard Barnes Lambert's Vanitie, and E. Walter Clark...
Milestone. Last fortnight Boeing System completed 10,000,000 mi. of flight with mail, express, passengers over Chicago-San Francisco and Seattle-Los An-geles routes. In three years of service Boeing planes carried 176,000,000 letters, 13,800 passengers. Total night-flying (about 5,000,000 mi.) was more than that of all European nations combined during the same period...
Mystery. Fast trains travel the 350 mi. from Montreal to Manhattan in ten hours. Scheduled transport planes fly the distance in four hours. Last week Dale ("Red") Jackson, co-holder of the world's refueling flight record (TIME, Aug. 12) took off from Montreal in a Travel Air "Mystery" ship (TIME, Feb. 24), pulled up in a triumphant zoom over New York's Curtiss Airport (Valley Stream, L. I.) 1 hr. 55 min. later, a record. The "Mystery" ship's average speed had been 3.04 mi...