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Back from the American Pro-Cathedral in Paris to sun-swept Mt. St. Alban, highest point in Washington, D. C., will be brought the body of Norman Prince, founder of France's Lafayette Escadrille, there to be sepulchred within the Washington National Cathedral. Bishop James Edward Freeman made the announcement last week, together with a statement that Norman Prince's father, Frederick Henry Prince of Prides Crossing, Mass., who was mentioned for U. S. Ambassador to France (TIME, April 15), had made a "generous gift" toward the construction of a $200,000 chapel in the south choir aisle...
...mystery. Historians generally agree on the year as 1854. But the place is in dispute. Historian Charles A. Beard thinks that a mass meeting held in Ripon, Wis., was the true party matrix. Historian William Starr Myers of Princeton is inclined to agree and adds the name of one Alban E. Bovay as instigator of the meeting. But, Jackson, Mich., and Kansas City, Mo., also advance claims for the historic honor. Last week President Coolidge favorably entertained a suggestion from Kansas Citizens that the Republican Party's 75th Anniversary be celebrated this year. The President did not, however...
Nineteen centuries of foundered orgy looked up at the hydroairplane which last week waltzed high over Lake Nemi in the Alban hills back of Rome. And Giuseppe Cultrera, Etruscan scholar in the plane,* looked down from the vantage of his flying height through Nemi's waters and could see what none but groping divers theretofore had seen?the sunken Golden Barge whereon epileptic Emperor Caligula?, great-grandson of Augustus, and his minions held their carouses...
...vessels lie on Lake Nemi's bottom. Centuries of slime cover them, and rocks that have slipped from the steep sides of the Alban crater which contains the lake. One of them, the smaller, is certainly Caligula's. Treasure hunters since the 15th century have tried to raise the barge, un successfully and to its great damage. Some years ago one adventurer yanked loose a lead pipe. On it was an inscription which referred to Caligula. The float was decorated with marble, mosaics and carved woodwork...
Snow sifted down upon the Alban and the Sabine hills, one night last week; and when a pink dawn came Pope Pius XI was seen to look out early from his palace window at the pinky snow...