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Close to the hill where the shrine of St. Louis now stands, ancient Carthaginians had their temple to Moloch, into the fire-blazing pit of whose brazen stomach they dumped children as sacrifices. Julius Caesar planned to rebuild the city. Augustus did so. It grew to have 500,000 population almost as many as before destruction. The Roman massacres of Christians occurred mostly in the 3rd Century A.D. Most famous of the Carthaginian martyr saints were Cyprian, a bishop, and Perpetua, a rich lady who modestly pulled her torn clothes about her sabre-ripped body before she died. The Arabs...
...before Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh arrived in Panama City, a colyumist on El Tiempo deplored that he had become "an instrument of imperialism. . . . The Lindbergh of today . . . translates, expands and fortifies the ambitions of imperialism. He is as significant in a spiritual sense as a Chicago sausage factory...
...felt sombrero, with red pigtails coiled over her ears, was to be seen contemplating her own scenes of circus life, and Artist George Frederick Arthur Belcher stalked about, his ruddy face and bushy red eyebrows set off by a bright blue foulard stock. Women, young and old, crowded around Augustus John's portrait of London's rash theatrical favorite, Tallulah Bankhead, daughter of onetime (1917-29) U. S. Congressman William Brockman Bankhead of Alabama. She was pictured wearing the diaphanous salmon negligee which elicited so much gasping and sighing from the stalls during her recent London appearances...
Married. Francis Augustus Drake, son of Chicago hotel tycoon Tracy Corey Drake; and Virginia Chapin, Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan...
With Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh (technical adviser) to fly the first ship, Pan American Airways, Inc., is serenely certain of far-flung publicity upon the opening of any new route. As thrice before, Pan American received it in full measure last week when Lindbergh piloted a Sikorsky amphibian from Miami 1,200 mi. over water to Cristobal, C. Z., inaugurating a new seven-day mail service from New York to Buenos Aires. The Caribbean hop cuts four days from the route previously used via Belize, Tela, Managua, David and Panama City. The new schedule calls for at least...