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Homeward from Genoa this week steamed the U. S. Lines' Manhattan. Pack jammed aboard her were 2,000 U. S. refugees fleeing from the wrath to come. They had paid $200 to $360 for their passages, were glad indeed to get space in crowded cabins or cots in the ship's palm court, grand salon, playroom, gymnasium, post office. Among the passengers were: > Forty dogs, whose accommodations included artificial tree trunks. > New York Timesman Harold Denny's wife and her dog, which understands Russian only; beauteous Mrs. Eric Sevareid, wife of CBS's Paris correspondent...
...Catholic Church declined to give him holy ground. Nice, Cannes, Antibes, St. Raphael refused him space. Three years later, when the Church changed its mind, Paganini was dug up from the wastes next to an olive oil factory, moved to his son's estate near his native Genoa. Later he was taken to Parma, where he occupied successively three different graves. Finally in 1926 Genoa got him back. Last week that city gave its fiddling son a memorial celebration...
...smell of it from shops where they were grinding it, met one at every turn. So the myth that Italy is coffeeless explodes. They serve it intensely strong. No one in Naples or Genoa-our next stop-seemed the least concerned with what was brewing on the Brenner Pass. I mean by this that they were not buying papers or evincing any interest in any events if you asked them for their views...
...asked at every one of Duff's lectures in the U. S. A.? Who sends the lecturers from India to America to complain of British rule ? The Indians are not asking for America's support, but the Germans are inciting in the dark anti-British feeling-in Genoa as in Chicago or any other neutral town...
Last week Mr. Welles arrived at the Vatican at 9:48 a. m. and left Pope Pius XII at 11:05 a.m. Following evening he left Rome, reached Genoa at 6:30 the next morning and, after a four-hour rest at his hotel, he went aboard the Conte di Savoia, which sailed at noon. The ship anchored at Gibraltar at 5:30 a. m., was boarded by British officers at 8, thoroughly searched by them (looking for German Economist Dr. Schacht, said rumors, while Berlin said he was there) and sailed...