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...Victory of a Detroiter in a tournament which, except when it was won by German Helene Mayer, has always been won by Easterners, was one indication of fencing's spreading vogue. An even more spectacular one has been provided this winter by the presence in New York of Aldo Nadi. Aldo Nadi is a sleek, suave and almost incredibly elegant young man from Livorno, Italy, who makes no secret of the fact that he is the best fencer in the world...
...Aldo Castellani, of the Royal Italian Medical Corps, member of the faculty of the School of Medicine of the Louisiana State University, will not give his annual lectures at the Medical School this spring. Dr. Castellani is commander-in-chief of the Italian Medical Corps and must remain close to the Ethiopian situation until the war is ended...
...fact that the legislation waiting for his signature was pitifully meagre: the War Department Appropriation Bill increasing the enlisted strength of the Army from 119,000 to 165,000 (TIME, March 25); a bill conferring the Distinguished Flying Cross on Italian Air Marshal Italo Balbo and on General Aldo Pellegrini for their flight to the Century of Progress in 1933; the repealer of income tar publicity (pink slips...
...tongue, agile and stinging as his pen, nearly carried the day for duck protectionists against an overwhelming number of non-protectionists led by hard-driving President Thomas Hambly Beck of P. F. Collier & Son Co. Few months later "Ding," no grudge-bearer, joined Publisher Beck and Professor Aldo Leopold of University of Wisconsin on President Roosevelt's Committee on Wild-Life Restoration. The Committee's program, last week awaiting President Roosevelt's approval, has for its major plank the conversion of submarginal farm lands into game reservations and breeding grounds. Created in 1886, the Biological Survey...
...fluttery days the women were permitted to roam the air station arm-in-arm with the flyers. For months the men had been confined in monastic seclusion lest any of them get off mental or emotional balance. Under the fanatical hawkeye discipline of their commander, Col. Aldo Pellegrini, they dined together at a severely vegetarian training table. The hours of each day were strictly apportioned to flight practice, study, outdoor sport, sleep. A wife who tried to see her husband at Orbetello was brusquely informed at the gate: "All the pilots of the Atlantic squadron are bachelors." Indignantly she hurried...