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...question of technical equipment which peculiarly fits Mr. Gilbert for the important and responsible work which lies ahead of him, I feel that the Reparations Commission and the Governments are to be congratulated upon having secured for the post a man whose known breadth of vision, ability and wide experience will prove an invaluable boon to the great work which means so much to the world...
...Manhattan Grand Opera Association flings wide the swinging doors of the Manhattan Opera House on Sept. 15, with a gala performance of Aida. The ranks of the company have been filled to overflowing with a chanting pilgrim band of Milanese, Neapolitan, Venetian, Roman artists who arrived on the steamer Conte Rosso. Among them are Mme. Clara Jacobo, Adriana Boccanera, Beatrice Melaragno, Frances Cairone, Gius- eppa La Puma, and Signori Giuseppe Radaelli, Rino Oldrati, Giuseppe Oliviero, Amadeo Taverna, Italo Picchi...
...introduction of vegetable oils, however, turned the tide abroad. Yet the product failed of wide acceptance until the War, when butter was rationed in England. Many who had to eat margarine or nothing, ended by liking it as well as butter...
...English Channel, the most widely advertised and popular of natatorial obstacles, is 22.5 miles wide where swimmers attempt it-Dover to Calais or vice versa-and a swimmer's course is often 56 miles long through the shifting tides. It has been traversed several times, most recently and fastest (16 hr. 33 min.) by Enrique Tirabocchi, Argentine porpoise-man. Channel water, however, is warmer than the Firth of Forth. (TIME, Aug. 20, 1923). The Hellespont, between Gallipoli Peninsula and Asia Minor-famed in fable for being negotiated by Leander, amorous Greek, and in romance because Lord Byron...
Detroiters sat on the cool verandas of their Yacht Club, trained their glasses on a line of snorting speed boats that came plunging down the Detroit River, swept around a wide turn and plunged back upstream on the other leg of an oval course. Toward evening it was announced that Rainbow IV, owned and driven by Harry B. Greening, of Hamilton, Ont., had the best times for three 30-mile heats. Greening was not presented with the American Power Boat Association's Gold Challenge Cup, for which he had raced. A rival pilot protested that Rainbow IV was constructed...