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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some of the most recent speakers were: Mr. Rufus Jones (Venice), Professor Einaudi (Cavour), Professor G. Salvemini (Mazzini), and Professor Giuseppe Prezzolini (Machiavelli). This year the Circolo's list of speakers includes Professor C. R. Post, who will speak on Art, and Professor Salvemini, who will explain "The Geographical Position of Italy, and its Historical Implications." One evening will be taken up by a recital of Italian instrumental music. There will also be several farces and short plays acted by members of the Circolo...
...Condon, famed for his part in the Lindbergh kidnapping case, neither drinks, smokes nor swears. He needed no stimulation to wear a U. S. flag on his coat lapel, explain to the Wisconsin stranger that he felt deeply sorry for Convict Bruno Hauptmann...
...well ahead of time. It never used to hurt my eyes either, but I'm afraid it does a little now. I shan't do any more of them. I am appalled at the thought of the work that went into these things. I can't explain where I got the patience to do them...
...last week's lecture Architect Le Corbusier tried to explain his Radiant City all over again. Speaking no English, he strode up & down with a box of colored chalks before enormous sheets of thin paper on which he scribbled skyscrapers on stilts, trees, frogs, elevated roadways, blue clouds, orange suns. The secret of Radiant City seemed to be to limit motor traffic to elevated roadways, put all buildings on stilts with playgrounds and footpaths underneath, roof gardens above...
...once, the search for clouds, definite proof of the existence of water vapor, began. The presence of certain white spots was explained away by one astronomer as nothing more than mountains reaching the plausible elevation of two miles. This could not explain the phenomenon witnessed at the Lowell Observatory on the evening of May 26, 1903 however...