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...late great War is still a little too close to be recollected in tranquillity; as yet no epic, prose or verse, has attempted to put it between covers as Thomas Hardy put the Napoleonic Wars in The Dynasts. But this anthology of War stories is a step in that direction. These 66 short stories, by French, German, British, U. S. authors, whether or not they are the best stories of the War, at least give a more representative picture than can be found in any one novel, poenij history...
...beyond. Realizing that the paths of political glory lead only to the grave, Premier Benito Mussolini has undertaken the task of insuring his immortality in the less transitory world of letters. The world's most famous virtuoso in political showmanship will make his debut as a playwright with and epic to be produced at the Hungarian National Theater...
Sponsored by wealthy Fascist patrons- Poet Virgilio Fiorentino has just produced an epic of 20,000 verses "priced at 12,980 lire ($675) the set, handsomely bound and illustrated." Title: Twenty-Seven Songs of the Fascist Revolution. At the rate of one song (volume) per month, the 27 volumes will appear during the next three and a quarter years, subscribers paying by the volume (month...
...Epic Argument. Vol. I, Song I opens in Heaven on Jan. 1, 1919-the day Italy declared her "state of war" ended. A Heavenly conclave of Italian War dead and heroes of the past is summoned by the Father, Son and Holy Ghost to advise how Satan, who provoked the War, may be finally overcome...
...Epic among housewreckers' tales is the story of the demolition of the old vault in New York's Mechanics & Metals National Bank Building, when the site was cleared for the new Chase Na- tional building. Merely to remove the two 34-ton vault doors took three weeks. Four more weeks of siege and the roof was dislodged. Two 500-ton hydraulic jacks were then put inside the vault, and the walls were forced apart by internal pressure. The entire siege lasted three months...