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Tucked away behind the mountains of Lombardy, the tiny Lago d'Iseo, famed retreat of Italian notables, appears to the eye of passing aviators like a single glistening twisted tear upon the scarred visage of a giant. Last week a salute of 21 battleship guns boomed across this diminutive strip of water. Tourists afloat in ornamental near-gondolas, all but toppled overboard in fright. Shading their eyes and looking about for a super-dreadnaught which was nowhere to be seen, they marveled...
...London Foreign Minister Chamberlain let slip a reminiscence or two concerning the famed steamboat sail on Lago Maggiore which was taken during the Locarno Conference by the chief plenipotentiaries (TIME, Oct. 19, INTERNATIONAL...
Seat of the Conference. Just north of the point where the Swiss frontier nips off a bit of Lago Maggiore, famed azure cradle of les Isles Borromees lies the little town of Lacarno, at what is said to be the lowest spot in Switzerland. To harassed negotiators, what could be a fairer haven? Locarno boasts but a single copper thread of telegraph wire to connect it with the outside world. Its atmosphere is not Swiss but Italian. Its climate has not the smart alpine tang of St. Moritz, but the balmy southern lambency of Italian Stresa, just across the lake...
...train was held up for him. At the insignificant station of Soave, between Verona and Brescia, he alighted. There an automobile awaited him and off he tore in it, heeding not a gesticulating policeman who tried to stop him for speeding. At Gardone, which lies in the mountains between Lago d'Iseo and Lago di Garda, the automobile slowed up. Hundreds of peasants who had heard rumors of his coming were on hand to greet...
...glorified English sparrow" brought an end to lago's pestulant plots yesterday morning when Professor Kittredge and 200 students in English 2 abandoned Harvard 6, unable to compete with the strange rasping that reverberated through the ventilator. About 10.30 o'clock the periodic screach commenced. Ten minutes later the class had forgotten Desdemona and Professor Kittredge had given up an attempt to set his lecture to music...