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...Switzerland has refreshed Bloch's musical powers, given him leisure to indulge his passion for mushroom-hunting, made him jovial. His gloomy look vanished with his beard, which he shaved off as a surprise for Suzanne when he met her in Genoa two summers...
Aboard S. S. Roma, Sicily-bound out of New York, Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie, assaultee in Honolulu's great 1932 rape case, divorced two months ago, slashed both her wrists with a razorblade, moaned: "I wanted to die." Sewn up, she was hospitalized, landed at Genoa. Hospitalized ashore, she smiled at her doctor: "I am going to die. You may stop me now. But I will show you. I might cut my wrists again...
When Italian officers put away their glittering swords and appear at cafe tables in Sam Browne belts, then tourists know that maneuvers are beginning. They began last week from Asti in Piedmont south across the Ligurian Alps to the Italian Riviera. The problem was obvious: the defense of Genoa and the manufacturing cities of Italy's north from a French invasion through the mountain passes and along the seacoast. The Fascist militia was mobilized, acting in reserve for the regular troops. In the field too were little King Victor Emmanuel and Il Duce, who hurried over from his conference...
...Genoa for a visit, Monsignor William Eugene Cashin of Manhattan, one-time Chaplain of Sing Sing Prison, found himself "encumbered with a guide and interpreter. I may say that he wished himself on me. He spoke fair English, called me Father Cashin and generally acted as though he knew me. His face was familiar and in checking up I found he used to be one of my boys in Sing Sing, where he used to attend mass and go to confession. Alberto was his name. It seems that he was declared an undesirable alien when he got out of Sing...
When Captain Antonio Lena took the Italian Line's S. S. Conte di Savoia out of Genoa harbor last week, he wanted two things. One was to beat the average speed record for a transatlantic crossing: 27.9 knots, set by North German Lloyd's Europa in 1930. The second was to beat the Conte di Savoia's own record of six days and twelve hours from Genoa to Ambrose Channel Lightship. Five days and 20 hours later Captain Lena was a happy man. His long, lean, white ship had averaged only 27.4 knots from Genoa...