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MUSSOLINI-Edited by Parong du Son Severino-Dutton ($3.50). Baron di San Severino has, according to his preface, selected, translated! and edited the speeches of Benito Mussolini, as delivered between November, 1914, and August, 1923. The impression that the reader will receive is of a man whose salient characteristics are domination, simplicity, directness, courage. The speeches, per se, are not of general interest, but for anyone interested! in Mussolini, they are decidedly worth reading. Baron di San Severino has done an excellent piece of work, but he has not done it impartially...
...year is the Gordon Bennett Cup race open to international contestants, and at present held by Belgium. But a pilot to have his chance in the Gordon Bennett must survive a national elimination race. This race was held last week in the U. S. Seven large gas bags left San Antonio in the presence of 100,000 people. The pilots were Captain H. E. Honeywell, Kansas City Cooperative Club, making his 550th ascent; Herbert von Thaden, Detroit Aviation Society; Major Norman W. Peek, U. S. Air Service Balloon No. 1; Captain Edmund W. Hill and Lieutenant Ashley C. McKinley...
...Hearst has incorporated under the laws of California a holding company known as the Hearst Publications, Inc., which will acquire ownership of eleven Hearst publications, including the San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Call-Post, Los Angeles Examiner, Los Angeles Evening Herald, Oakland Post-Enquirer, Good Housekeeping, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Motor and Motor Boating. A prominent firm of Wall Street investment bankers will underwrite and distribute a 6½% first mortgage issue of over $12,000,000 for the new holding company...
...details of the proposed visit will be announced until after May 10, on which date the Japanese elections are to be held. It was held in responsible quarters that the Prince will leave Japan in a warship and land at Manhattan, thence across the continent to San Francisco, where he will reëmbark for home...
...Captain, R. Norris Williams, II, of Philadelphia, third ranking player; William T. Tilden, II, national champion; Vincent Richards of Yonkers; Watson Washburn of Manhattan, also named as alternative captain. Alternates: Francis T. Hunter; Howard and Robert Kinsey of San Francisco; Carl Fischer of Cynwyd...