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...Duce received the news in Sicily, where he had gone to review Italy's annual war games. On a triumphal tour of the island, he told cheering Sicilians that "the lush old days of the Roman Emperor Augustus" were the only fitting comparison with the Fascist regime. To the crowd jam-packing the public square of Syracuse he shouted that Italy was "ready for any struggle, prepared for any sacrifice & determined to snatch victory" at any cost. Then, remembering the recent improvement in Anglo-Italian relations, he stood on the prow of a dummy destroyer erected in Messina...
...Liverpool Diocesan Review, the Right Rev. Albert Augustus David, Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, explained why baseball is "unsuited to the English temperament." Excerpts: "The backchat and calls of both players and spectators at a baseball match in America are something to be remembered when the play is forgotten. So far, English spectators of baseball have only learned the elementary calls of the game. If they ever learn the full phraseology of American baseball, we do not think "it will be long before its undesirable effects are seen at Association football matches...
...Conference which many delegates were determined to develop into a frontal attack on Fascism, there might have been likelier promoters than Churchman Brown, the scion of the banking Brown Brothers who married Anne Spencer Morrow and Charles Augustus Lindbergh, who lives well on Park Avenue in Manhattan, and planned after the Conference to golf with other members of the Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews. Last week Dr. Brown was far less in evidence than such U. S. churchmen as Union's passionate Reinhold Niebuhr or deliberate Henry Sloane Coffin, Princeton Theological Seminary's John Alexander Mackay, Presiding...
Exact opposite of most presidents who quarrel with their trustees, hard-fisted Tyler Dennett claimed they were wasting money. When Alumnus Dennett ('04) went back to Williams three years ago from a professorship at Princeton's School of Public & International Affairs to succeed President Harry Augustus Garfield, son of the 20th President of the U. S., he was shocked to find that his small, patrician college was piling up steady deficits. President Dennett installed a budget system, launched a money-raising program for Williams' library, laboratories, teachers' salaries, scholarships. But he found 73-year-old Senior...
Died. Parmely Webb Herrick, 55 banker (Hayden Stone & Co.), orchid- raiser, son of the late great U. S. Ambassador to France Myron Timothy Herrick of cerebral hemorrhage, in Manhattan where he had moved three years ago from Cleveland. In Paris in 1927, when his father welcomed Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Parmely Herrick lent the hero a suit of clothes which was returned to him, six months later, neatly pressed...