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...train at Turin. It was afternoon and they spent the night there, then went on to Milan. There they went to the office of a travel agency. "I am Samuel Insull," he said. "You know who I am?" He was perfectly casual, displayed a thick roll of banknotes. The clerk knew he was a U. S. utility tycoon whose fortune had been swept away. He did not know that Samuel Insull was under indictment in Chicago for larceny and embezzlement, that the U. S. State Department was spattering Europe with cables asking his whereabouts. The agent provided air transportation...
...Lido to the "ornate pink brick Excelsior Palace" where he was staying. He and his party rejoined the Princess Jane who presented a Signora Cecile Kraus with whom she was talking with a special word for her ability as a dancer. The Prince took the young widow from Milan out on the floor of Chez Vous. an open-air cabaret at the Excelsior and danced several times. It is quite true that he danced only with her. but this may be explained by the fact that it was after one o'clock when he arrived, and that the music...
...last year, and in the encyclical on "Catholic Action," which Monsignor Spellman carried to Paris, translating as he went. Last week the Pope affectionately recalled that on the same day, the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, he himself had taken possession of the Archbishopric of Milan. Then Pius XI received Bishop Spellman's relatives, gave the men gold medals, the women rosaries. Bishop Spellman got a large gold medallion for his mother. But his honors were not over. It was as if the Vatican were bending backwards for Bishop "Frank" Spellman, Fordham graduate, student...
...Edgar turned up in Vienna, but he talked too much about his relationship to the old Kaiser and was quietly ousted. By this time U. S. newspapers had it quite fixed in their minds that Prince Edgar was really an Italian adventurer named Carlo Lorioli who came originally from Milan, married a Milanese and had himself naturalized a Hungarian in order to get a divorce in Fiume. This story did not prevent Prince Edgar from turning up in Turkey shortly after his departure from Vienna. He led an uprising of the Albanian Maltsori tribes and was elected their chief...
...employe saw the dark little man fiddling calmly with the zippers of his training pajamas, then walking solemnly across the green arena toward the victory stand, his right hand raised in a Fascist salute. The loudspeaker told the flag-raiser who it was ? Luigi Beccali, of Milan...