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...struck between Genoa and Leghorn. For hours Italian shipping was buffeted. Many fishing smacks floundered. Viareggio and other resorts on the Italian Riviera were inundated. At last the storm veered overland through Tuscany and Emilia to Venice. There the Grand Canal rose until gondolas glided across the Piazza di San Marco-usually as dry as Fifth Avenue, and like that thoroughfare lined with shops de luxe. Venetian vendors of lace, glass and what not, bustled about in two feet of water, rescued floating show cases, were vexed...
...first edition of Venus and Adonis, the oldest existing edition of any work by Shakespeare. He has, in short, the most valuable collection of first editions in the world, and the most complete Americana. (To catalogue it cost $40,000.) These things and his magnificent 500-acre home at San Marino will go at his death to the government, together with a trust fund to preserve them and add to them...
Urbane, precise, conservative, rather than dapper; tolerant, rather than genial; exhibiting button shoes, a cold eye, grey hair and long fingers, Henry E. Huntington goes on buying things. At San Marino he breakfasts at seven and reads for an hour, turning the pages carefully. When he is in Los Angeles or Manhattan he goes to his office and spends a few hours with his railroads, his villages, cliffs, painted motor buses, trolley-cars, skyscrapers, his coupons, clerks, cigars and the polite young men who look after his money and call him "Sir." It is pleasant to feel that these things...
...San Francisco, the Symphony there broadcast for the first time. It was an experiment, Conductor Alfred Hertz had announced; he demanded a guarantee fund of $25,000 to see it through. Came the Sunday concert, and radio fans, thousands of them, stopped their Sunday putterings to listen in, voted the experiment a success. Managers scouting around the darkened Curran Theatre, saw great patches of vacant seats, thought differently, gave thanks to the few loyal subscribers and the Standard Oil Co., who had furnished the guarantee...
...said to be going to California that night and would very much like to see the Harvard team practice. No objection was found and he saw Harvard carefully practicing the flying wedge. Several weeks later when he had reached California, he happened to be sitting in a cafe in San Francisco with another elderly man and unwittingly told the other the new development in Harvard's offense. The only trouble with his disclosure was that a Yale man happened to overhear the conversation and wrote to Walter Camp word for word what he had heard...