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...ruins of empty Aduwa. First troops into the town were the 84th Infantry of the Gaviana division, who received the honor of leading the assault because they were the first troops to be sent to East Africa. With them they carried a strange piece of equipment, a fragment of a Roman column, brought all the way from Italy to be propped up in the market square of Aduwa in memory of the dead of 1896. By this time Rome's desire to celebrate was slightly chilled. How many had been killed? Whose sons were gone? When would the first...
...five years ago, when the writer was 17, he did this twice, once on a guppy, once on a swordtail. You will probably receive many letters in this same vein from other amateur gynecologists. The instrument used in the case of the writer's fish was the split fragment of a razor blade...
...work in a Brooklyn refinery went Son Herbert. After an eight-year apprenticeship, he was promoted to one of the Rockefeller central committees -old Standard Oil's committee on manufacturing. When the Oil Trust was busted in 1911, Herbert Pratt was made vice president of the New York fragment, now Socony Vacuum Oil Co., Inc. And as he mounted to the presidency and on to the board chairmanship of the second largest member of the Standard group, the name Pratt grew as potent in the oil industry's gasoline age as it had been in kerosene. Last week...
From France of the same century comes a manuscript of black outlines, strong reds and blues and formal figures, evidently based on Gothic stained glass. Of the thirteenth is a fragment of one of the immense "Moralized Bibles," so seldom completed. It is opened at the page showing the youthful St. Louis and his mother, Queen Blanche of Castille, and it was made in their lifetime. These eight leaves were taken from the Bible which is still preserved in the Chapter Library of the Cathedral at Toledo; it is reassuring to read in the Morgan Catalogue that they were already...
...manuscript of Arabella presented by Opera Composer Richard Strauss. No. 1 Nazi Jew-baiter Julius Streicher, who always does the odd thing, presented a huge volume which he said contains all jokes current in Germany about the bridegroom. Eccentric Rear Admiral von Levetzow, Berlin Police Chief, gave "a fragment of a shell fired at Jutland," but rich Germans currying favor piled up $400,000 worth of presents...