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...spied the figure of a short bespectacled young man on the cutter Hudson below. "Oh, Junior! Junior!" he cried. "Hello, pop. How are you doing?" came the robust-voiced reply. Thus the Samuel Insulls met last week for the first time since they parted nearly two years ago in Milan. As the younger man climbed up the ship's side, his father rushed forward, embraced him. Senior Insull, trembling with excitement, turned to his fellow passengers and said: "Gentlemen, my brother-I mean, my son." Photographers began to take pictures from the tugs below. Father and son posed readily...
...companies. But humiliation followed. In Chicago a grand jury indicted him for embezzlement. Newshawks began to hound him in the streets. Finally, just before his arrest could be requested, he stole away in the night. His son Samuel Jr. went with him as far as Milan whence the old man fled alone to Athens. Instead of bravely facing the music, he had elected to become a hounded man, to ask hospitality of aliens, to finagle with outlandish courts and people, to flee on a scummy little freighter, to lie in shabby hotels, and finally to be cornered in a common...
...Europe Werner Janssen had chances. He has conducted in Rome, Turin, Milan, Berlin, Budapest. Herbert F. Peyser, meticulous foreign critic for the New York Times, went to Finland last winter when Janssen conducted an all-Sibelius program in the composer's presence. Critic Peyser wrote the report that won Janssen his Philharmonic engagement. Said he: "Sibelius turned to me visibly shaken and stammered, 'For the first time I am hearing my work exactly as I conceived...
Next day was inaugurated one of the high spots in the Fascist public works project, an elevenmile double-track railway tunnel through the Etruscan Appennines between Bologna and Florence which will cut seven hours from the run between Naples and Milan. Because work on the tunnel was first started 20 years ago, it was inaugurated not by Benito Mussolini but by little King Vittorio Emmanuele III, who stopped in his private car at the tunnel's mouth to dedicate a fountain to the memory of 98 workmen who lost their lives while the tunnel was building...
...Paris' Notre Dame, Rome's St. Peter's and Santa Croce and a monastery at Reichenau, Germany each claim large fragments. The Three Nails, according to Catholic authorities, are represented today by some 30 enshrined at Rome, Venice, Aix-la-Chapelle, Madrid, Trier, Nuremberg, Prague, Paris, Milan and Monza. A lance thought to be the one with which Longinus, Roman centurion, pierced Christ's side while he hung on the cross, is preserved at St. Peter's. Unduplicated anywhere outside of St. Peter's is Veronica's veil on which Christ wiped...