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...German Davis Cup team (Daniel Prenn, Gottfried von Cramm, G. Jaenecke): the European zone final, for the right to play the U. S.; 5 matches to 0, against Italy; at Milan...
...state of affairs. A foreign loan must be floated somehow, and without signing away the vast undeveloped oilfields at Tokar. Questions of the royal succession are also troubling Stephan. His eldest son Dushan had renounced his royal birthright to marry an American, and now is dead. Milan, the present Crown Prince, who shoots horses out of his way rather than walk around them, is suspected of conniving with Italy to hand over the Tokar oilfields, is suspected of being a bastard as well. Prince Marko, a pretender, also threatens to make the Illyrian throne rock as soon as the huge...
Last week in Milan was buried Marina Beghe, 93, whose house for many years sheltered an energetic young priest named Achille Ratti, her nephew. Last week Achille Ratti, now 74, mourned his aunt. He had not left Rome since he became Pius XI in 1922, and the day of his aunt's burial was the day he had chosen to issue his second encyclical in this year of Depression. Title: Caritate Christi Compulsi (Urged by Charity of Christ...
...charity bazaar in Milan, Gabriele d'Annunzio gave one of his molar teeth, encased in a silver chest upon which he had engraved the Latin word Durabo (I will last). It was raffled off for 3,000 lire (about $150). Poet d'Annunzio. now practically toothless, bald as an egg, also contributed his War cigarets (bought by a nephew of Il Duce for 1,500 lire - about $75), a piece of cloth on which he had painted a design "with a violent hand." and a bewitched bird. Interviewed upon landing at Rotterdam, bushy-haired Albert Einstein remarked: "Nice...
...peasant, the daughter of the keeper of a tiny village inn, invincibly modest and wholesome. To say that // Duce ignores Her Excellency and lives a bachelor's life in Rome is to ignore the fact that he also visits her from time to time in Milan or on their farm at Forli in northern Italy, bounces their latest babe upon his knee and otherwise demonstrates his warm family feelings...