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Spume laden, a storm swept in from the subtle Mediterranean last week, struck between Genoa and Leghorn. For hours Italian shipping was buffeted. Many fishing smacks floundered. Viareggio and other resorts on the Italian Riviera were inundated. At last the storm veered overland through Tuscany and Emilia to Venice. There the Grand Canal rose until gondolas glided across the Piazza di San Marco-usually as dry as Fifth Avenue, and like that thoroughfare lined with shops de luxe. Venetian vendors of lace, glass and what not, bustled about in two feet of water, rescued floating show cases, were vexed...
...Genoa, Neb., high-school girls complained that their assembly room was chilly, whereupon the school authorities decreed that girls from the sixth grade up must wear skirts long enough to cover their knees, walking or sitting. Hazel O'Brien, 16, spunky, would have none of the rule. Relatives backed her and a legal action hung upon the school board's next move. Said one of Hazel O'Brien's less haughty schoolmates: "We'll look like the girls of the horse-and-buggy days. The boys will be drifting to other towns for dates...
Maiden Voyage. The Roma, new ornate, oil-burning, 33,000-ton queen ship of the Navigazione Generate Italiana docked in New York harbor last week after its maiden voyage from Genoa and Naples. She outrode a two-day storm without damage. But poor plumbing let cabins be flooded with tap water. The defects will be remedied...
...wide straw hat on my head, my legs dangling overboard into the water. I awoke, startled by furtive splashing near my lonely boat. To my horror, two huge sharks were circling about, churning the water, swirling greedily. I drew in my legs. I recalled that a bather near Genoa had been eaten alive by sharks last month. I rowed for shore. The brutes charged me many times but I got to safety, spread a warning...
...thieves" were Count Lugi Lusignani, onetime President of the Bank of Parma; Giambattista Biaggi, Swiss Consul General at Genoa; and Professor Alessandro Groppali of the University of Parma. They were jailed last week on sealed charges. Allegedly the President and the Professor had misused their influence as prominent Fascists to abstract quietly from the recently bankrupt Bank of Parma many a golden lira. The detention of these particular gentlemen was notable. All are intimates of Roberto Farinacci, recently deposed as Secretary General of the Fascist party, because of his arbitrary and ruthless extermination not only of the foes of Fascismo...