Visitors to Amsterdam were still traveling by water or land, although Charles Lindbergh had already crossed the Atlantic in his monumental 1927 flight. Sensation on the feminist front was not confined to the Olympic debut of women's track and field, but included excitement about Virginia Woolf's daring novel, Orlando. Of all the figures to emerge in 1928 only one has not aged one bit, Mickey Mouse. In other news, one of greatest true sportsmen of the era, Norwegian explorer Roald Admundsen died trying to rescue an Italian South Pole expedition. Good news for athletes was the revelation that vitamin C had finally been isolated. Even greater news on the health front was the invention of one of the most invaluable drugs of the century, penicillin.