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...Detective Henry P. Oswald in Manhattan last month, hinted that the bonds might be "in Paris-Paris, France." From officials there, Oswald learned that a dressy mob was peddling U. S. securities at cut rates among U. S. expatriates. Another tip led to a beauteous blonde called the Marchioness Pia Ferrari Davico. Federal agents enticed the "Marchioness...
Born. To Umberto, 30, Crown Prince of Italy, and Marie Jose, 28, Princess of Piedmont, sister of King Leopold of the Belgians: their first child; in Naples. Name: Maria Pia...
During the War surgeons noticed that after head injuries many soldiers developed epilepsy. Dr. Ney and associates, first with the French Red Cross, later the American Expeditionary Forces, observed particularly that where the injury occurred the cortex and three soft coverings of the brain (pia mater, arachnoid membrane, dura mater) adhered to the skull. If during an operation the surgeon pulled at the attached soft parts, the patient on the operating table went into epileptic convulsions. The Ney group judged that the convulsions resulted from the incidental stretching of the cerebral cortex...
...called Pacchionian granulations grow out of the arachnoid (middle) membrane. Dr. Ney's belief is that man's upright posture conditions the growth of Pacchionian granulations. The growths frequently erode, in one direction through the dura mater and into the skull, in the other direction through the pia mater to the brain itself. Their final effect often is to peg the brain to the skull...
...gayer. It was an Italian holiday, newly named Lateran Treaty Day. Crowds thronged the Tiber's banks. Honored _ guests at the Vatican included Camilla Ratti, sister and nearest relative to the Pope, and Marchesa Maria Luisa Persichetti-Ugolini, the Pope's favorite niece, who named her daughter Maria Rio Pia in her uncle's honor. Bustling about was Monsignor Camillo Caccia-Dominioni, Master of the Papal Household, favorite secretary of Pius XI. Plump, jolly, much-loved for his virtues, Master Caccia-Dominioni arranges papal audiences, is present at all functions. Proudly he escorted Mussolini upstairs, to the Pope's private...