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...Vittorio Veneto, tweedy men and chiffoned women of one of the oldest, handsomest and rottenest aristocracies in Europe munched Europe's creamiest cream puffs. At Ro-sati's, they sipped their Martinis under the blind eyes of an ominous, seven-foot statue of Augustus Caesar, Rome's first Emperor-tyrant. And only five miles away, in an almost perfect circle, stretched the filthy, swarming manheaps of the Roman slums. The worst of them was nicknamed "Shanghai"-which to Italians is a synonym for total degeneracy. Here 15,000 Romans lived in one-room shacks; watermarks...
Vincent Starrett's The Fine Art of Forgery, an essay on human gullibility whose principal hero is French Forger Vrain-Denis Lucas. Spry M. Lucas sold to a contemporary collector (for 150,000 francs): 27 letters from Shakespeare to his friends, "communications from St. Luke and Julius Caesar, from Sappho, Virgil, Plato, Pliny, Alexander the Great, and Pompey. These . . . were somewhat eclipsed by such unusual items as a letter from Cleopatra to Caesar discussing their son Caesarion, a little note from Lazarus to St. Peter, and a chatty bit of gossip from Mary Magdalene to the King...
...Wickman bought a small line operating out of Superior, Wis., owned by a young man named Orville Swan Caesar. The line was unimportant, but Caesar, a onetime mechanic's helper who liked to tinker, was not. Within a year he and Wickman were running Greyhound together and had laid the foundations of the present Greyhound Corporation. They kept on buying up other lines out of profits, kept their former owners to run them. When their cash dwindled, a Minneapolis banker, Glenn Wood Traer, joined forces with them. He persuaded railroads to hedge their own futures by investing...
...into Elephant. Though the Hound is already elephant-sized, President Orville Caesar, 54, plans to keep it right on growing. As Wickman is chairman of the board of directors, most of the Hound's care and feeding is up to Caesar. He now has in the works a $20 million project for new terminals, at New York, Chicago and San Francisco, along with garages, restaurants and comfort stations...
...addition, Caesar has spent half a million dollars building an experimental double-decker bus, the first for long haul, express runs. Worked out with Designer Loewy, it will be only 18 inches higher than present buses and no longer. But the tricky new seat arrangement will permit 13 more passengers to be carried, 50 v. 37 in present buses. It also has a washroom, toilet, water cooler, may even carry a hostess. The driver sits in a special clearview compartment between the two decks. It will start on its shakedown cruises this summer. If the trial runs suit Caesar...