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...Travels of Marco Polo...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dutton's | 11/15/1926 | See Source »

...between Genoa and Leghorn. For hours Italian shipping was buffeted. Many fishing smacks floundered. Viareggio and other resorts on the Italian Riviera were inundated. At last the storm veered overland through Tuscany and Emilia to Venice. There the Grand Canal rose until gondolas glided across the Piazza di San Marco-usually as dry as Fifth Avenue, and like that thoroughfare lined with shops de luxe. Venetian vendors of lace, glass and what not, bustled about in two feet of water, rescued floating show cases, were vexed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Tempesta | 11/8/1926 | See Source »

...Rome, Dr. Marco Porzio, great surgeon, was quoted as denouncing U. S. surgeons for "permitting" Rudolph Valentino to die (TIME, Aug. 30), after a mere "appendicitis" operation. The fact is, Rudolph Valentino died of septicaemia (blood poisoning) after the perforation of a gastric (stomach) ulcer. Polyclinic Hospital officials had not realized that many people were as interested in the cinema-man's disease as in his personality. Indeed, so gauntly meagre were the hospital bulletins that an Italian correspondent cabled Mr. Valentino's malady as "appendicitis." Dr. Porzio was deceived. But no one in the U. S. explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Intelligence | 9/13/1926 | See Source »

Eugene O'Neill's unproduced manuscripts are various. Those most likely to reach the stage this season are a dramatization of the book of Job, a play called Marco's Millions, and a third called Lazarus Laughed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: The New Season | 8/2/1926 | See Source »

Theodore, the eldest, 39, and now resuming business affairs* after sundry candidacies and appointments in politics. Last spring he found some Marco Polo sheep (TIME, March 8, SCIENCE). Last week he was assigned, as colonel, to a 15-day training period at Plattsburg...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: In Grandfather's Steps | 7/26/1926 | See Source »

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