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So runs the Greek legend. Lately Italian archeologists, probing the sand dunes near the ancient port of Ostia at the mouth of the yellow Tiber, turned up a marble statue of Perseus, a curly-haired youth clutching his dreadful trophy. The statue bore some resemblance to the Hermes of Praxiteles...
In 1527, typhus accompanied the sack of Rome by Charles V's troops. Wrote Villa, an invading Spaniard: "In Rome no Dells sound; no church is open; no mass is read. There are no Sundays and no holidays. The rich shops of the merchants are used as stables; the...
The most extraordinary passenger on the Aquitania as that Cunard-White Star liner steamed out of Southampton for New York last week was a pretty Scottish nursemaid whose name was not printed in the passenger list. She was whisked incognito to her cabin, where a stalwart British stewardess was posted...
"Well, anyway, he was stopping here at the Hotel Lincoln with 1,500 other people. But on this particular night. I needed his help badly. Mungkee had just come home from the hospital, where she had had an operation performed. The bandages seemed to hurt her and, foolishly, I took...
"Oh!" she cried. "Isn't that dreadful!"