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Most distasteful to Italy's Cupid was a grave irregularity last week at Avellino. Rosino Consolazio, 19, agreed with her fiance Montalberti Filcorate, 23, to end their engagement in a duel. On the field of honor she shot him through the head, received a flesh wound in the cheek...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Birth Boost | 9/3/1934 | See Source »

...play the desperate role of Economic Tsar but to equip Germany with an ordered "Corporative State." Chancellor Hitler, who despises armchair economists, took a keen personal liking to dynamic Dr. Schmitt as a "frontline war fighter." (His nose, however, was not cleft in battle but in a student duel.) Not an original Nazi, Dr. Schmitt entered the Cabinet with a reputation as Germany's No. 1 insurance tycoon, a man of rugged integrity whose energy and calm enabled the Frankfurter Insurance Co. to be reorganized in 1930 without great loss to policy holders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Hand-to-Mouth | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

...DUEL-Ronald Fangen-Viking ($2.50). When Feodor Dostoevsky died 53 years ago. a light went out of literature's night sky that appears only once in a blue moon. Last week U. S. readers were rubbing amazed eyes, asking themselves if the moon were not once again blue. For Duel, Norwegian Author Ronald Fangen's first, book to be brought out in the U. S.. shone with an unmistakably Dostoevskian light. Like his great prototype. Author Fangen is a foreigner but his translated words need no visa. The world he writes about is the same world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Dostoevsky's Steps | 6/25/1934 | See Source »

...Pitcher's Duel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball Team Meets Eli Today After Rain Cancels First Game | 6/20/1934 | See Source »

...this latter case the fans will watch the unusual sight of a duel between two Grade. A pitcher-captains. Both Parker and Loughlin have seen carrying about 75 per cent of the pitching burden on their respective outfits this season and both are quite a stretch ahead of the No. 2 men, their understudies. Bernard Rankin, a Sophomore will probably be Parker's alternate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Baseball Team Meets Eli Today After Rain Cancels First Game | 6/20/1934 | See Source »

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