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Just 2,000 years ago come October 15, was born on a farm near Mantua, Publius Vergilius Maro, greatest Roman poet, suave and brilliant favorite of Augustus, the first Roman emperor, frequent guest of Tycoon Maecenas. From now on until Virgil's 2,000th birthday in October Italian gardeners will be furiously busy planting the Lucus Virgili or "Virgilian Wood," a great new park on the outskirts of Mantua, a modern version of the sacred groves of the ancient Romans, who planted groves of trees which in aspiring to heaven might honor their gods, goddesses. Because Poet Virgil mentioned...
Died. Mrs. Katherine Alexander Duer Blake, 50, onetime wife of telegraph Tycoon Clarence Hungerford Mackay and of Surgeon Joseph Augustus Blake, mother-in-law of Composer Irving Berlin "Always," "Russian Lullaby"); of bronchial pneumonia; in Manhattan...
...stunt flyer is Charles Augustus Lindbergh. It was for "pure experiment" last week that he and his small wife flew the 2,700 mi. from Glendale, Calif., to Roosevelt Field, L. I., with a 22 min. stop at Wichita, Kan. It took them only 14 hr.. 45 min., 32 sec., nearly three hours faster than any previous crossing of the U. S., but Col. Lindbergh deprecated efforts to credit him with breaking the record of Capt. Frank Monroe Hawks which, he pointed out, was a nonstop flight with a heavy fuel load. The Lindberghs held to levels between...
...London Conference prepared to end with a quick curtain last week, the Naval Treaty was rushed onto paper by a drafting committee, and who should sit for the U. S. as No. 1 draftsman but the father-in-law of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, small-statured, mighty-minded Dwight Whitney Morrow. This was but just. For although the main U. S. legal prop of the conference maypole has been Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, much of the strenuous work of dancing round and round for eleven weeks, much of the weaving in and out of diplomatic ribbons to make...
...Charles Augustus Lindbergh...