Word: hills
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Nearly two milleniums ago a man who liked monuments sent his Roman legions into the Alps and in three brisk campaigns made vassals of its 44 tribes. To celebrate that feat the Roman Senate & People raised to their first Emperor, Augustus Caesar, a great monument, on a lonely hill overlooking the Mediterranean and the shore road along which the legions marched toward Spain. Like a great stone wedding cake, the Trophy of the Alps rose 150 ft., topped by a stone Augustus. With the centuries the Visigoths, Ostrogoths, Vandals and Huns tore the great pile apart. Later still...
...lonely hill had become La Turbie, near Monte Carlo, where a rich Yankee expatriate spends his winters. Square-shouldered, withered little Edward Tuck, 92, went to Paris 70 years ago as Abraham Lincoln's vice consul and, except for a few early years of shuttling back & forth to the U. S., stayed on in France. He made his fortune as a private banker, built it up by investments in U. S. banks (Chase), railroads (Great Northern, Northern Pacific) and public utilities. He has given France a $5,000,000 art collection, a hospital, Napoleon's Park at Malmaison...
Because Actress Ethel Barrymore was not in to a process server who called at her Mamaroneck, N. Y. home three times a day for seven days, Hill Brothers, Ltd., London clothiers, obtained a court order to nail to her door a summons to their ?86 suit on an unpaid bill...
Representative Doughton's able second in command who sat beside him last week in conference was Sam Hill of Washington. Representative Hill has the appearance and manners not of a farmer from North Carolina but of a spruce businessman. If, as rumored, Mr. Doughton retires from Congress to take a seat on the Tariff Commission, Representative Hill will succeed to his important job. The rumor, however, is probably to be credited to Mr. Hill, who is well aware how committee chairmen may be puffed up and out of their jobs...
Died. Guy Holt, 42, publisher, director of Whittlesey House, McGraw-Hill book-publishing subsidiary; of a heart attack following amebic dysentery contracted at last year's Chicago Fair (TIME, March 19 et ante) ; in Manhattan...