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...Guerra, Fame, Distruzione." Sulphurous lava, 2,500° F. hot, more than 30 feet deep and 200 yards wide, rolled over the funicular that had carried many a tourist to the Valle dell' Inferno near the crater's edge. Glowing boulders rattled from the mainstream, set orchards and vineyards afire. The flood engulfed the village of San Sebastiano: first a stone house, then the yellow school and the little church, finally the wineshop...
...European recording of one of Mozart's most ingratiating concertos. Performance: fair. Recording: good. Johann Strauss: Blue Danube Waltz (NBC Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor). A fascinating illustration of a great conductor's weakness. Maestro Toscanini's Danube is a swift torrent of molten lava. Recording: fair...
Senator Joseph F. Guffey, most vociferous of the Senate's tiny handful of New Dealers, set off a political volcano last week. The volcano might be just the Democratic Party, or it might be the nation. The oratorical lava which seethed out revealed a shocking depth of Senate bitterness against President Roosevelt and his inner circle-at the least. At its worst, it widened a split between Congress and the President which may be symptomatic of national disunity...
...were [close] to where showers of molten lava were falling. ... As we scrambled up, one shower dropped a few pieces within a yard or two of us. ... It seemed a little like walking between rain drops, but the top was too temptingly close and we scrambled ahead. ... It took all our resolution not to run back...
...there we were looking at one of the most fearsome sights in the world. Clouds of steam obstructed our view, but now and then they thinned out to show us the red, seething mass of lava whose fierce heat came at us in gusts. The steepness of the sides, yellowed with sulfur, surprised me. They sheered off below us like a cliff. And every 30 seconds came that roar and explosion as the angry mass shot its lava into...