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...planes were Italian Savoia-Marchetti bombers with their identification marks carefully painted out. Each was jammed with cases of machine guns, ammunition, hand grenades, machine-gun belts. Near one of the planes were found several knapsacks containing the khaki uniforms of Spain's Foreign Legion. The eleven aviators arrested by the French were all in civilian clothes, carried civilian Italian passports, but in their pockets were receipted pay checks giving their names and rank in the Italian Air Force. Later reports showed that the planes were part of a flight of 21 that had tried to fly non-stop...
Outside. Italy promptly tried to establish an alibi, claimed that the officers were not Italian, that the planes were private. The Savoia-Marchetti factory is an Italian Government factory. Il Duce, to whom no sin is greater than getting caught, demanded "an investigation...
...Oriental Institute; of a hemolytic streptococcic infection; in Manhattan. Finds and ever more finds all over the Near East persuaded him that Egypt was the cradle of civilization and the birthplace of human conscience, whose origin and development he traced. When he was carried ill from the Conte di Savoia last week the Press revived the mythical "Curse of the Pharaohs" (TIME, Feb. 5, 1934), recalled that Oldster Breasted last year snorted: "All tommyrot! I defy that curse. For two weeks I slept in the tomb of King Tutankh-Amen...
...scares were not the only thing that brought France's General Denain to Italy last week. Beside the military agreement, a commercial plan was signed for an air line that will provide daily service between Paris, Marseille, Rome. Italy's newest airliners, huge four-engined Savoia-Marchettis, will be used...
Author Edna Ferber never attends a first night of one of her plays, flees from Manhattan when her new books appear. Last month she escaped the publication of her newest novel, Come and Get It (TIME, March 4), by sailing on a Mediterranean cruise. Returning on the Conte di Savoia last week, she reported her flight: "Palestine is a country in the making, like America busy and alive. I found the King David Hotel simply flawless, thoroughly modern. Yet all around is the suggestion of the Biblical. For instance, I would go down to the bar for a cocktail...