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...Italian military prestige with a mass attack on the onetime summer resort of Santander. key point of the shrunken and crumbling Basque front. As predicted, the Rightist columns found ineffective resistance among the 25,000 Basques and Asturian miners defending Santander and last week Santander fell. As predicted, Italy threw aside the last vestige of neutrality in the Spanish Civil War. The three Italian divisions-Black Arrow, Black Flame, 20th of March - which had helped reduce the city, marched in triumphantly and, in good Roman fashion, paraded a column of hairy Basque prisoners. Back home, the controlled Italian press acclaimed...
...Travis last spring when a gang of husky young men from the Southwest put up a derrick on his land and began to drill for oil. On May 23 they brought in an oil well which produced nearly 3,000 barrels the first 24 hours. That day Farmer Travis threw away his cane...
...wearing false hair on the chest." Author Hemingway called for a mutual baring of bosoms. What next occurred is the subject of variorum accounts. Author Eastman's version: "I knew he could knock me out quickly in a boxing match, so I grappled with him and threw him on his back across Max Perkins' desk and then over the desk and down on his head in a corner." Author Hemingway offered his story as he sailed for Spain. On his forehead were bruises, on his arms, scars. His version: "Max Eastman didn't do that...
...they entered-the Duke in a dinner jacket, his Duchess with sapphire earclips and a white evening gown-the audience jumped to their feet to roar Viva l'amore Viva l'amore! (Long live love!). At the end of the play Romeo bowed to the couple, threw up his hand in a Fascist salute. The crowd went wild with excitement. It was a typical demonstration of the popularity that greeted the Duke & Duchess wherever they went...
...Martin Niemöller, fiery ex-U-boat commander arrested last March on "still more serious charges." Since Dr. Niemoller has long been the spearhead of the Confessional movement many Churchmen regarded the unexceptionable handling of Dr. Dibelius' trial as disingenuous window-dressing, wherein the Nazis deliberately threw a small fish back into the pond, while they went right ahead with their plans to land a whale...