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Cardinal Richelieu founded the French academy of 40 "Immortals." Benito Mussolini went Richelieu 25 better by found-ng the Italian academy of 65 "Immortals." That Mussolini's "Immortals" have turned out to be a luckless lot was sardonic news that leaked past Fascismo's censor last week...
...academy, a senator named Tommaso Tittoni, was stricken with paralysis. A prominent member, Professor Alfredo Trombetti, went swimming at the Lido last summer, drowned in the lukewarm Adriatic. Giocchino Volpe, secretary of the academy, has had three recent operations on his defective ear. But of all the academicians, most luckless is Antonio Beltramelli, Fascist author of Il Uomo Nuovo, "The New Man," a paeon praising Il Duce. To celebrate his immortality he dyed his remaining hair a rich and glossy black. The hair dye soaked into his skull, affected his brain, according to his doctor. Previously he had married...
...Criminal Code. Martin Flavin is both lawyer and playwright. (Children of the Moon). Perhaps by intention he has shaped his new drama in 13 scenes, for it is the tale of a luckless boy who obeyed the moral laws but was manacled, body and spirit, by the statutes of man. A lonely newcomer in the city, he took a street-girl to a dance hall, where she was insulted and he accidentally killed the offender. The blunt ritual of the courts sent him to prison for ten years. There, in the cancerous association of evil men, he learned the criminal...
...concubines had moved in some time ago, while other guests pointed covertly, whispered, "It's Chang Tsung-chang and his harem.'' As every Chinaman knows, Ugly Customer Chang is the rapacious former Chinese War Lord of Shantung. He taxed and stole $10,000,000 cash out of that luckless province before the Chinese Nationalists drove him out (TIME, Sept. 24). Insatiable, he set sail from Japanese waters last spring with a privateering expedition, recaptured part of Shantung, terrorized banks and merchants into yielding him more gold, was finally driven out a second time (TIME, April...
...half-demented captor knew; and the Three Just Men knew-almost too late. The man who was bringing her the deeds was fatally and mysteriously struck in the neck. Two tiny pricks in a patch of angry red flesh suggested snakebite. But a London "bobby" had been watching the luckless man for some time, and could testify that neither snake nor biped had been near him. Mercurial Mr. Meadows of Scotland Yard was baffled; but the Three tracked the criminal along circuitous bypaths of villainy, killed him with his own venomous mechanism. Just what that was-"Crime Club members never...