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Ancient though it is, Rome got around to building a subway for the first time only last week when Benito Mussolini swung a pickax with such vigor that he cracked a paving stone in the Piazza Bocca della Verità. Five thousand Fascist workmen are to build the four miles of subway in four years, by that time will probably be as proud as the overpropagandized Red toilers in Moscow who through Intourist interpreters ask travelers: "Is it not wonderful that the Soviet form of State has enabled us to build a subway? You have no subway...
...building a brand new temple for the monks who had guarded it; a group of Renaissance pieces from the Dreyfus collection, just bought by Andrew Mellon for his new national museum (TIME, Jan. 11); two Benvenuto Cellinis; David with the Head of Goliath, only known bronze by Luca della Robbia beside his famed doors for the Florence Cathedral; the earliest of six known figures by Daumier of "Ratapoil," his famed caricature of a Bonapartist agitator...
...with amazement that the actual articles far exceeded in scope any possible portrait in words. . . . She has retained Maître Armand Grégoire, Paris attorney, to defend her interests." Attorney Gregoire was reported considering suits for fat libel against such mass newsorgans as Paris-Soir and Corricre della Sera of Milan, which had car ried the Noyes articles after their U. S. publication. Mrs. Simpson had been discussing them with the Duke of Windsor by telephone to Enzesfeld and a wrong impression was abroad that Mrs. Simpson might be sharing in the financial returns of her relative...
Before the Senator embarked on his year of innovation, La Stampa had 200,000 circulation. Last week it reached 295,000, was stepping hard on the heels of the panting leader, Milan's Corriere della Sera...
Through all of them runs the western impress of practicality; the bocca della verita was an eminently useful contrivance, and Virgil's talismanic glass fly was used, not to confound the people, but to rid their meat markets of flies and their cities of infection. A magician Virgil was, but a magician with a purpose, a great seer who bent his black art to the relief of human misery and the improvement of human society, and who had his place in the cosmic optimism of the middle...