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Iowa patriots who revere the Scott County birthplace of "Buffalo Bill" were shocked to hear that the Bologna newspaper Resto del Carlino had "discovered" that Colonel William Frederick Cody was really Giovanni Tambini, born in Barbigarezzo about 1840 and "a typical Italian ... full of Fascist courage and daring...
...before the Flood, not the recent Pennsylvania flood, but the Bible Flood." Then the word "hooey" meant "hoof." "In times of famine," continued Mr. Hoffman, ''it became necessary to eat all the parts of an animal. These parts were ground up into a food similar to our bologna of today. It didn't taste well or smell good but it was filling. So when the Phoenician soldiers received this food, which was supposed to be beef, they would say, 'that's hooey.' The word traveled up through the ages, possibly journeyed from the Baltic...
...contestant in the race-that-was-not-a-race, New York Journal's Dorothy Kilgallen, took a special plane on the home stretch from Alameda to Newark, completed her circumnavigation in 24 days 12 hr. 51 min. Sticking strictly to commercial schedules, except for one taxi ride from Bologna to Brindisi, Timesman Kieran made the trip in 24 days...
...Attia from that most ancient university, Al-Azhar, founded at Cairo in 970 A. D. Lanky, bespectacled President Conant, trying to keep the golden tassel of his mortarboard from slipping forward as he bowed, pumped Professor Attia's hand, drawled: "How do you do?" Next came delegates from Bologna, Paris, Oxford. Then up to the stage marched smiling Physicist Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington and four other dons from Cambridge. As Chemist Conant grinned broadly at Physicist Eddington, the long line of waiting scholars burst into applause...
Most mediseval is the letter of the University of Bologna engrossed on heavy sheepskin, with the printing surrounded by brilliant hand drawn illuminution predominantly blue and red, with gold interlining...