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...final match, between Princeton and Harvard, the best that Harvard could do was to pull out a 2 to 2 tie thereby losing the tourney. In this match N. E. Long '32 succumbed to Forbes of Princeton who adopted a Sicilian defence and defeated Long in 32 moves, and A. G. Malkan '33 went down to defeat before the superior play of McCormick. The Harvard victories were registered by V. L. Eaton '34, who won from Rothschild of Princeton and by M. A. Mergentheim...
...series of 43 terrorist murders, 15 of the prisoners were sentenced to life imprisonment, 109 others received sentences totaling 1500 years.* A ruckus broke out that sent the pigeons fluttering from the courthouse roof, set little Sicilian donkeys braying hilariously in the nearby marketplace. Prisoners spat, screamed, bit their thumbs at the jury, howled maledictions. Resourceful Matteo Balsamo, sentenced for life, tore off his shoes, hurled them with appropriate curses through the bars of his cage at the jury. The jury kept their shoes...
...centuries of punishment that began last week marked one of the last stages in a campaign that began in May 1926 when Benito Mussolini decided that the secret terrorist organization known as the Sicilian Mafia, the "Black Hand," was a blot on the name of Italy. He commis- sioned Fascist Prefect Cesare Mori of Palermo to eradicate...
...hour flight over North Africa. On the third day, near Biskra, a storm struck her, disabled her wireless and motors, blew her across Tunis toward Sicily. Thence the Dixmude's trail sprawled octopus-like with conflicting "eyewitness" reports. First authentic trace occurred nine days later when Sicilian fishermen pulled in with their nets the body of du Plessis de Grenedan, the Dixmude's commander. No other body has been found. But tribesmen have insisted that on the sixth day after the storm they saw the Dixmude, obviously out of control, drifting south over the centre of the Sahara...
Every now and then Fascist editors announce that Il Duce has suppressed the dread Sicilian Mafia "entirely," but every now and then a few hundred more Mafiosi are dragged into court...