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...eyed, bouncing Bambino Romano Mussolini was born Sept. 27, 1927. At age 14 months he bounced once around Ancient Rome while Fascists roared enthusiastic "Ala-ala-alalas!" (TIME, Dec. 10), in the arms of Papa Benito Mussolini, who bounced in turn upon a large white horse...
Presents 1) From Norwegian Americans a $4,500 oil painting by Jonas Lie, entitled Herring Cove At Dawn, and presented in Oslo last week by His Excellency the U. S. Minister, Laurits Selmer Swenson, born in New Sweden, Minn.; 2) from the city of Oslo, a set of books by Norwegian authors; 3) from the city of Stocknolm, a diamond tiara of 956 stones; 4) from the Norwegian Society, a Grand piano, especially requested by Princess Märtha; 5) from the Swedish Government, a replica of King Gustaf V's own golden soup tureen; 6) from the Norwegian...
...white hedonist basking deliciously among South Sea Islanders and a sturdy Cape Codder poising his malicious harpoon over boiling seas, join incongruously in the popular impression of Herman Melville. As a matter of fact, he was born of eminently conforming New Englanders and but for a few glorious seagoing years, lived drably enough as an indifferent farmer, writing feverishly in the slack winter season. Failing as farmer, failing too as popular writer, he aspired to a post at some foreign consulate, but had to content himself with a job as customs inspector. He once described the post as "a most...
With tremendous, white-hot roar a small meteorite recently rushed from the skies and smashed into southwest Africa. Last week Harvard's Dutch-born Astronomer Willem Jacob Luyten examined the sky-piece and found it the biggest thing of its kind yet observed by Science. It measures 10 by 10 by 14 feet and weighs between 50 and 75 tons. Hence it is bigger than the record 36½ ton meteorite found on the edge of Greenland by the late Polar Explorer Robert Peary and given to the American Museum of Natural History...
Ownership. The Phelps Dodge combination had its origin in Anson Greene Phelps who was born at Simsbury, Conn., in 1781. He was a saddler by trade but came to New York and set up in the tin plate and metal business. One of his six children, Melissa, married William Earle Dodge who was a dry goods merchant. In the 1830's Phelps persuaded his son-in-law to join him in establishing Phelps, Dodge & Co. This latter company was extinguished only in 1917 when it merged with its subsidiary, the Copper Queen Consolidated Mining Co. to become the Phelps...