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With three companions he took off from Guayaquil, Ecuador, rose 12,500 ft. to skim the bare mountain hump en route to Quito. Had Fritz Hammer climbed 15 ft. higher he would have cleared the granite peak. Instead he and his companions crashed to death. When found, the plane was strewn over half a mile of mountainside, the four bodies were 200 yards apart, all stripped naked by Indians...
...fact that much of modern sculpture can be multiplied through casting in bronze, terra cotta, and artificial stone gives it a far greater social significance than painting. It is, perhaps, for this reason that German sculpture (together with architecture) reached a peak of general excellence never attained by painting and scarcely reached even by sculptors of other countries...
Organist Biggs believes that the 18th-Century organs, few of which exist today, reached the same peak of perfection as the violins of Stradivarius, feels that organs made since, with their gadgets and kickshaws, have come a long way downhill...
Some people think that ragtime started with Irving Berlin's Alexander's Ragtime Band. Others, better informed, know that when Berlin's song appeared (1911) ragtime had long since passed its peak...
...bureau was closed in 1936 and 1937 because its free legal advice to poor people was thought to be in itself an illegal function, but since its reopening last Fall, the number of cases handled compares well with peak years before the break...