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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...
...pious folk a century ago believed that Nicolo Paganini was in league with the Devil; some swore they had seen Old Nick at the Italian violinist's side as he fiddled like the very devil himself. No one before him, and few after, could do what he did with a bow - extra long, for his abnormally long arm - and four strings. A haughty showman, he employed unusually thin strings, not only to produce extremely delicate harmonics (overtones two octaves higher than normal), but also, said some, so that he could break a string, use the remaining three as makeshift...
...early twenties Stradivari was still an apprentice in the workshop of Nicolo Amati, whose father and grandfather before him had made fine violins. For some 20 years after he left the workshop, Stradivari continued to imitate Amati's small, yellow-varnished models, then began to experiment with a style of his own. At the age of 56, when most men begin to take things easier, Stradivari painstakingly evolved an entirely new model, broader and darker in color than the Amati. All his life he had been a feverish but carefully slow worker; his later years showed no letdown. Though...
...such at least was their number and rank according to the Italian Press-were summoned by War Minister Benito Mussolini to his great office in Palazzo Venezia at Rome last week for one of the Dictator's famed unilateral "discussions." Among the 100 generals fidgeted Crown Prince Umberto Nicolo Tomaso Jean Maria, Prince of Piedmont, General of the 25th infantry brigade and father of an infant on the verge of birth. A few years ago Crown Prince Umberto used to be the last hope of antiFascists who tried to believe that he once challenged Mussolini to a duel. Last...
...Roosevelt's uncle, offered for sale, through the American Civic Association, handkerchiefs 28-in. square whose design, in six colors, is a map of historic Washington & environs. Proceeds will go to the George Washington Memorial Parkway Fund. Price: $1. ¶ Talking with Italian Ambassador Augusto Rosso and Commander Nicolo Sananelli of the Italian War Veterans, President Roosevelt revealed that while on a walking tour in Italy in 1860 his father James had entered Naples during a siege, had received from the great Garibaldi himself one of the Liberator's red shirts...