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...automobile accident in the U.S. The new palazzo was to be used as a study center and quarters for architectural students. A site was chosen on the Grand Canal between the magnificent 15th century Ca' Foscari, once a residence of the doges, and the 16th century Palazzo Balbi. The house which Wright's palazzo would replace is a dingy brownstone residence...
Genoese nobility, and in five years in Genoa he painted half the cavaliers and haughty ladies of the houses of Doria, Brignole Sale, Pallavicini, Balbi, Cattaneo, Spinola, Lommelini and Grimaldi...
...birds, among the Solomon Islands only 500 miles from Papua, is Hannibal Hamlin, 24, great-grandson of Hannibal Hamlin, Lincoln's first vice president. He heads the Whitney South Sea Expedition for the American Museum of Natural History. His present despatches report him having reached the crater of Balbi, active volcano on the northwest coast of the Island of Bougainville. For aids through tropical rains, mud and brush he could get only two Polynesian sailors. Natives, however, did not molest...
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