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...seacoast town not far from the Isle of Elba...
Waiting-for-Christmas. Before going out of action, the French joined the British in giving Italy a copious taste of air-bombing at Turin (home of Fiat motors), Milan and Venice. French cruisers and destroyers shelled the Ligurian coast (San Remo to Elba), the Italians replying with coast guns and torpedoes, claiming two destroyers struck...
...Englishmen. One hired him for a trip to the world's coldest spot. He picked Yakutsk, Siberia. From a U. S. millionaire with a Napoleonic complex came his goofiest assignment: a tour of every Napoleonic landmark in Europe. They started in Corsica, wound up six months later on Elba...
...range). He arranges to wed Habsburg Marie Louise. Marie Walewska is disgusted. Says she: "'The savior of Europe has become a son-in-law." Not until after the retreat from Moscow does Marie have much more to do with the Emperor, except for bearing him a son. At Elba they are reunited and Marie agrees to take a message to his followers, telling them the eagle is returning, cured of royalty, to try once more his dream for the United States of Europe. When the dream has been dissolved at Waterloo, Marie gets her last glimpse of her lover...
...Elizabethtown Court House, in 1859 John Brown's body lay in state for days before he was buried at nearby North Elba. Last week it was packed with Elizabethtown's summer visitors. Nattily dressed in Hollywood sports-spectator clothing, La Verne Moore heard New York State Supreme Court Justice O. Byron Brewster deliver a scholarly oration, then grant his application for bail ($25,000). Said Judge Brewster in part...