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Slow steaming with many a portentous puff, the special train of Premier Mussolini drew into Riccione, on the Adriatic coast, last week...
...Imperial Airways (British) liner bound out of Amsterdam for London was late, or would be if her pilot took time to climb aloft to his usual travel level. The big plane sped down the low Dutch coast. Some 80 miles past the Belgian border . . . Plud! ... a wild duck, hypnotized with fright, flew straight into a propeller of the roaring frame crossing its path. The liner had to descend. A message flashed to London brought a new propeller in a few hours by air. The passengers re-embarked and were treated to the first night flight ever made by an Imperial...
...from the stock that bred Chief Justice John Marshall of Virginia. He acquired a scientific background at Johns Hopkins. His breadth of literary background is suggested by a monster, high-ceilinged library in his big airy house on Bay St. Louis, far across the bayous on the Mississippi coast. Just as Louisiana is of all States perhaps the most detached and self-concerned, and just as New Orleans concentrates the independent-mindedness that makes this so, just so does Editor Marshall Ballard, with his loose, comfortable clothes, vigorous address and un concerned habits epitomize the talented Southern individualist...
Canadian Hearst. Last week Sir William Howard Hearst, lawyer, onetime (1914-19) premier of Canada, arranged the consolidation of 22 Canadian department stores into a $10,000,000 chain, the Canadian Department Stores Ltd., and became its president. He expects it to operate from coast to coast...
Later he was hurried ashore by a U. S. Coast Guard cutter. Reporters boxed him, asked him if he really intended to resign as chief of prohibition enforcement. Said he: "You asked me that last November, and I told you that if I had shown no progress in a year I would quit. Well, I am sticking to that...