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Some time ago, Premier Mussolini decided to put an end to the wide- spread misuse of titles in Italy. To that end he appointed a commission to inquire into the matter. Political wiseacres, almost without exception, foresaw the abolition of all papal titles bestowed since 1870 when the temporal power of the Papacy came...
...under the auspices of the Aeronautics Department of New York Uni versity, he gave last week as chatty and graphic a talk as the wireless has ever carried to listening thousands. "I predict air transportation at a cost of less than 30c a ton mile. I predict a Nation-wide connecting-up of all important commercial and industrial cen tres with air mail operating at night between such centres as are approximately 1,000 miles anp.rt...
...marched out of Yorktown between the French and American ranks lined up on both sides of the Hampton road. The British bands played an old British march, The World Turned Upside Down. In a field just off the road, a squadron of French Hussars were drawn up in a wide circle, into which the British were directed to march. Came the commands : "Present arms! Lay down arms! Put off swords and cartridge boxes!" Then the British marched back into Yorktown to rest before being sent to prison camps in the South...
...pulling away, animated toys all; then the stretch, the crowd ris- ing, a tatoo of hoofs-F. A. Burton's Wise Counsellor first; second, Big Blaze; third, Sun Flag; fourth, Initiate; fifth, Epinard, limping, staggering. A quarter crack in his hoof, though bound that morning, had broken wide open; the pain had killed his spirit, made him lose for the fourth time. Lamed, he will race no more in the United States, said Trainer Leigh speaking for Owner Wertheimer...
...played one of the leading parts last year in "The Makropolous Secret", will take the leading male role again this year. P. R. Hepburn '26, will also take a principal role, as will I. V. Morris '26, and D. W. Keys '26. Miss Margaret Nolan, who has had a wide amateur and professional experience, having acted in several stock companies and been on the road, will take the leading female part. Besides these five characters there are about 35 others who will take parts...