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...Architect Frei's buildings were designed in what he called "modified classicism," a style which seems to consist in substituting plain bands of stone for the traditional classic entablatures. Still Architect Frei believes architecture should be timely, said his winning design was "fun to work on because it bore a definite relation to the actual trend of affairs." Last year's winner, Architect Dick Granelli, is a good friend of George Frei...
...revived the celebration. In vast St. Peter's Square, late in the afternoon, 50,000 Romans and pilgrims waited. Presently from St. Peter's central doorway appeared the Pope, apparently kneeling but actually sitting at a priedieu on a platform borne by twelve husky men. Pius XI bore aloft a gem-encrusted monstrance containing the Host.* Prelates held a damask canopy over the Holy Father's head and stirred the warm air about him with ostrich-plumed flabella. Mace-bearers, torchbearers. Noble Guards and Swiss Guards walked at his side. The crowd cheered. Then 18 cardinals...
Anthony's mother was the wife of Machiavellian Don Luis da Vincitata, but Don Luis was not his father. His mother died in the wintry Alpine inn where she bore him; his reckless young father saw the point of Don Luis' swordsmanship too late. The nameless orphan was deposited anonymously by Don Luis at a Livorno convent. After a peaceful childhood there he was adopted by old John Bonnyfeather. Scottish merchant in Livorno and actually his grandfather. Both suspected their relationship but neither, out of respect for his mother's memory, ever openly acknowledged it. Anthony...
...smalltown bankers grinned and bore it without a whimper. Now that the shoe pinches it is the big bank and the big banker that makes more noise than a pig under a fence. It is the big banker who goes to the R. F. C. and it is the big banker who started the banking holiday. The little banker keeps on and on despite the onus that has been given to his profession. Give the smalltown banker credit for a job well done. ALLEN D. RUSSELL Plymouth Savings Bank Plymouth, Mass...
...make Albania an Italian protectorate was in 1927 the ambition of Benito Mussolini. Zog in those days was President of Albania. He was presently hog-tied with a crown. Albania under King Zog settled down to pleasant wildcat treasury squandering, made possible by yearly Italian loans which, conveniently, bore no interest...