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Avanti, the Socialist newspaper, heard the story, started a front-page ruckus. Into the fray jumped the Actionist, Communist and Republican papers, screaming for the Duke's royal hide. Royalist supporters, lukewarm or less in their affection for the middle-aged bon vivant-whose amorous escapades had the Lido and Newport agog a decade ago-sat tight...
Last week's regimental dinner paid fitting tribute to a man we midshipmen met at Lido Beach, and a man who holds something more than our respect, Lt. Commander Salmon. He was both an inspirational commanding officer and a gentleman. If your men were your commanding officer, Sir, they would say, as you so often have, "Well done." Smooth sailing, and good luck from the youngest of your past commands...
After a month of almost unbroken silence Company 1 hastens to report that it, too, came up to Boston with Pearson, Pearson, et al of Company 2 from Lido Beach, the new concentration point for SC candidates...
...badly whipped, broken-framed 1936 Oldsmobile to an old sourdough for $750. A few days later the sourdough stopped him on the street and said: "I sure do like that car. It was mighty nice of you to sell it to me." Top nightclub of Anchorage is the Lido Gardens, where dinner is $5 and watery highballs are 75? apiece. But the steak is the best that side of Chicago, the vegetables are quick-frozen and the chef gets $800 a month. The place has no orchestra (manpower shortage) but displays an elegant juke box-and the prettiest Civil Service...
Beside the Po. One day while these things were happening in Rumania, a trimotored bomber with a very determined-looking little Italian at its controls landed at San Nicolo airfield, on the Lido near Venice. Out jumped Benito Mussolini and into an automobile. He drove to ancient Padua, which Attila the Hun sacked and burned in 452 A.D., and there reviewed the motorized Turin division of the Army of the Po. He saw 10,000 soldiers, but 150,000 civilians were on hand to look at him. After reviewing the troops he stood up in a camouflaged armored...