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Four weeks ago, canny Giovanni Vis-conti-Venosta, Premier Bonomi's Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, got tired of trying to work through the Roman dusk by candle and carbide light.* One afternoon when Britain's High Commissioner, prim Sir Noel Charles, was to call, Visconti-Venosta personally ordered every candle and sputtering carbide light in the Palazzo Chigi doused. Sir Noel walked into Stygian gloom, groped his way through the Chigi's interminable passages and waiting rooms, conferred ghost-to-ghost with Visconti-Venosta. whose face never cracked a smile. Next day Visconti-Venosta wrote...
Good shots: Robert Cummings spiking Coburn's precious Romanee-Conti 1903 (only twelve bottles vintaged, six of them for the King of England) with soda pop to make it potable...
...autobiography, Present Indicative, he has written: "She . . . gave me an orange and told me a few mildly dirty stories, and I loved her from then onwards." For a while she went to the Convent of the Sacre Coeur, Streatham, studied dancing under a Madame Espinosa, and acting at Italia Conti's London school. She had cards printed reading Miss Gertie Lawrence, Child Actress and Toe Dancer...
Fundamentalist. White-headed, eagle-beaked old Charles Beard has developed the most profoundly ironic mind of any U. S. historian. Because irony has value in a period of emotionalism, his new book is a timely astringent. Disavowing "Isolationism" as an impossibility, Beard argues, as he has before, for a "Conti-nentalism" consistent with the ideas of the Founding Fathers. Sonorous and bland, he mocks both the ambitious Imperialism of Theodore Roosevelt and the lofty Internationalism of Woodrow Wilson...
Venereal Disease. "Complete, up-to-date national statistics on [venereal disease] are not available," says Dr. Conti. ". . . Considering Germany as a whole, social disease cannot be considered widespread. ... In fact, new syphilitic infections are so rare in Germany that our university clinics must hunt far and wide for such cases...