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Last week's Gran Premio had a special importance for manufacturers of European racing cars. The French Grand Prix was won this year by an Italian Alfa-Romeo, the German classic by a German Auto-Union. The changes in the Monza track were expected to help the Italian cars which have less straightaway speed than the German. The victory of a Mer- cedes gave Germany first place for the year. Second finisher last week was Germany's Von Stuck, whose Auto-Union won the German race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gran Premio d'ltalia | 9/17/1934 | See Source »

...last week Benito Mussolini hustled down the steps of his Villa Tor-Ionia in Rome, popped into his Alfa-Romeo and scorched southward deep into the malarial marshes of the Pontine. A motorcade of 200 cars pursued him bearing officials and newshawks most of whom wrote that night "Today I rode with Mussolini." Suddenly Il Duce's car slit) screaming to a halt at a blue plaster farmhouse known in the new Fascist reclamation project at Sabaudia as Podere (Farm ) No. 685. The black-shirted peasant homesteader on No. 685 who had won the Dictator's notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: No. 1 Thresher | 7/23/1934 | See Source »

BIJOU THEATRE. - Alfa Norman in "The Enchantress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amusements. | 1/23/1886 | See Source »

BIJOU THEATRE. - Alfa Norman in "The Enchantress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amusements. | 1/22/1886 | See Source »

BIJOU THEATRE. - Alfa Norman in "The Enchantress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Amusements. | 1/21/1886 | See Source »

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