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Meanwhile in Rome, Benito Mussolini wielded a spade in heavy rain last week, planted three pines to mark the site of Italy's 1941 World exhibition on the road to Rome's seaport, Ostia. Work began at once on the exhibition's buildings which will be permanent, will become a new suburb of Rome after the show is over...
...Italian who has bathed at Ostia, favorite beach of Il Duce, will be able to speed in electric cars, which already run to Rome, clear under the Eternal City and on up to his suburban home in the Alban Hills...
...Papal Legate Teodoro Lelli, Bishop of Treviso, accompanied the Lord Bishop of Ostia on a mission to the court of Louis XI of France. There the Legate was sketched by the court artist, Maître Jean Foucquet, who etched his subject's fleshy, self-assured features in silverpoint on a small piece of cream-colored paper. Last week, at Christie, Manson & Woods's famed London salesrooms ("Christie's''), this little picture was auctioned off to Lord Duveen of Millbank, world's No. 1 art agent...
...made more of rumor than fact, this story was partly verified by an experience of Kirsopp Lake, professor of History. While in Italy last winter, an acquaintance of his, a certain German working in the Vatican Library, related how his car had mysteriously stalled while on the road from Ostia to Rome...
...seems that all the cars within sight stopped functioning for five minutes, and then, equally mysteriously, were able to start again. Next day, all the Rome papers ran a story declaring that Marconi's new invention had proved successful by crippling the magnetoes of all automobiles on the Ostia-Rome highway...