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Lifter. In Patchogue, L.I., Frank T. Marino, who had gallantly given a lift to a woman whose car had broken down, was given 180 days in jail for returning to her car and stealing two tires...
Teaching Fellows in Mathematics and Tutors: Richard F. Arens, of San Marino, Calif., A.M. Harvard '42; James B. Crabtree, of Lawrence, Kans., B.S. University of Kansas '41; and Roger C. Lyndon, of Cambridge, Mass., A.M. Harvard...
...Marino, Calif...
Sprawling over the top of Mt. Titano in northeastern Italy, only 30 miles from Predappio, where Benito Mussolini was born more years ago than he likes to have recalled,* San Marino has 38 square miles of tourist-delighting quaintness and scenery, 14,500 inhabitants who love to give away honorary citizenship to rich Americans. Tradition claims it was founded by a hermit stonecutter named Marinus who gathered about him Christian slaves-the poor and oppressed. Cesare Borgia briefly conquered it in 1503, Cardinal Alberoni overran it for a year in 1739, but always, through centuries of war and political strife...
...Borgia's treachery with San Marinese help. Garibaldi saw an Austrian Army that was pursuing him halt at the Republic's frontiers. When the Fascist tide started rising in Italy, so many refugees were washed up on the mountain side that Italy threatened to take over San Marino. Instead, the Fascists tried for years to control its politics. Not until 1932 was there a pro-Fascist majority in the 60-man Grand Council. Not until Federico Gozi (whose family has run San Marino for years) and Salvatore Foschi were elected twin regents last week, and given identical uniforms...