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...PERELA - Aldo Palazzeschi - Vanni ($2.50). Virtually unreadable fantasy, in dialog form, dealing with the adventures of a "man of smoke" in a nameless kingdom. Prescribed by the publisher as good for what ails "the tired businessman; the psychiatrist, psychologist or Freudian; the political radical or conservative; the artist, philosopher or poet; the scholar, teacher or student," Perela should put them all to sleep in short order...
...Italy's war with Ethiopia was last week spotted by doctors as being an Anglicized Italian, Knight Commander of the order of St. Michael and St. George, Sir Aldo Castellani, whose wife is English and whose only daughter two years ago married British High Commissioner for Egypt, Sir Miles Lampson. Italy's No. 1 enemy in Ethiopia was disease and Sir Aldo is a world-famed specialist in tropical diseases. Most of his experience he acquired as a medical officer of the British Colonial Office in Uganda and Ceylon. He was accustomed to spend half the year...
...conditioned hospital ships for sunstroke cases. He proceeded to inoculate every Italian to land at Massawa or Mogadiscio with the vaccine he himself had discovered in British employ for prevention of typhoid, paratyphoid and cholera. Sir Aldo shipped to East Africa tons of quinine for malaria, tons of serum tubes for tetanus, gas gangrene and snake bite, and 18,000 hospital cots. He covered suspected water holes with petroleum, fumigated camps, provided good drinking water, dotted Eritrea with hospitals and laboratories. The Italian Army fought under unprecedentedly thorough medical care...
Last winter world headlines told of Italian hospital ships unloading thousands of Italian sick in secret sick dumps on the island of Rhodes, of countless Italian crosses on the plains of Eritrea. Sir Aldo smiled. Last week, arriving in Addis Ababa, he made his health report on the Italo-Ethiopian...
Livorno, in Tuscany, is the home of leghorn hats and the fencing school where Aide's father, Beppe, has been coaching Italian swordsmen for half a century. Beppe Nadi was the best teacher of his time. Aldo's older brother, Nedo, who visited the U. S. in 1930, was considered the finest fencer in the world when he retired two years ago. Reaching his peak after 25 years of vigorous training, Aldo Nadi inherited the family title at 34. Fencing experts agree that he is not only the equal of his brother but conceivably the most effective swrordsman...