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That night youths of Benito Mussolini's smartly uniformed Fascist Balilla held flaming torches aloft to light the vast, half-ruined Colosseum. In the Arena, where wild beasts once tore Christian martyrs to bits, the 15,000 veterans prayed in unison for a solid hour "for forgetfulness by Mankind of the hatreds of the World War and the re-establishment of Good Will among all peoples...
Since enemies of the Dictator industriously hint that he and the Royal Family do not see eye to eye, its members last week were thoroughly tarred by Fascist brushes with the expected war. Mincing-mannered Crown Prince Umberto was hoisted aloft on banners as an inspiration to the troops. Out of his Quirinal Palace bustled King Vittorio Emanuele III. His $250,000 Fascist-built private train, far more modern and luxurious than that possessed by any of the world's emperors, waited with steam up and all blinds down to speed the Little King northward for maneuvers. Next...
...June 27 after 23 days aloft they broke the official record of 553½ hr. set by Brothers John & Kenneth Hunter at Chicago five years ago, some 25,000 people jammed Meridian Municipal Airport to cheer them on. In carnival spirit, the crowd danced at the airport all night, whooped at the announcement that the field would henceforth be known as Key Airport. Ablaze with civic pride, the Chamber of Commerce promised the Brothers Key $100 for each & every day they stayed aloft after breaking the record, and the Junior Chamber of Commerce presented their children with Shetland ponies...
...Hawks (Columbia). As a realistic picture of modern commercial aviation, Air Hawks would be hard to take. Fortunately it is nothing more serious than a horror story hoisted aloft and sustained there by familiar mechanisms: a diabolical invention, a lovely cabaret singer used as the dupe of a crew of villains, trap doors, a comedy reporter, murder, young love and a mysterious gang chief photographed from behind, who turns out to be the man you least suspect. Before long the roguish tendencies of the executives of Transcontinental Airways have been stimulated to such a pitch by the refusal of Ralph...
...exactly 10 p. m. the World's third most extensive city-suddenly became the World's darkest. Over 150 battle planes- barred to Germany by the now scrapped Versailles treaty-thundered aloft over Berlin in a night air raid followed by another at dawn. Some dropped cannon cracker bombs. To make things more realistic Air Minister Goring had a section of Berlin subjected to real tear gas. Squads of Nazis dashed about telling teary citizens not to become panicky, assuring them "You will soon be quite all right." To make things still more realistic fake wounded soon appeared...