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Arrow-swift, a darting racing car swept over the Etruscan Appennines last week, scaled with a virile roar the heights of Monte Titano, swept into the Borgo of San Marino, oldest* and smallest† republic in the world. Behind, far behind, panted a lumbering caravan of limousines. Before they had scaled the nearly perpendicular republic, Signor Mussolini had leaped from his racer, received the respectful welcome of the two Capitani Reggenii (Regents) of San Marino. As the swaying limousines drew up, there clambered out, Signora Mussolini (Rachele Guidi), their daughter Edda, their sons Bruno and Vittorio. Round about stood...
...know what life is, but we do know that life is certainly a physical property, a behavior of a colloidal miscella [grain] of a particular constitution. In order to study this constitution, this behavior, we must necessarily turn to the smallest particle of autonomous living matter, where life presents itself in its most elementary form, where the complexity of the vital phenomena is least extensive. This infinitely small being which it is necessary to study is, therefore a protobe [protos=first, bios= life] and to be even more specific, it is that one which can most readily be observed...
...designs into the U. S. motor car field. Last year his Willys-Knight Great Six, with Knight sleeve valves, extended the fashion. At the turn of this year came his "70" Willys-Knight Six, somewhat lighter, but of the same general design. Then two months ago the Overland "Whippet," smallest of U. S. cars, came on the market. When Henry Ford reduced his prices a month ago, (TIME, June 28) no one of his executives could be induced to admit the obvious facts-that his sales had fallen off, that production schedules were curtailed, that sales must be induced...
Huge circles were marked off on the fairways where the course's architect had calculated that tee-shots should come to rest. They were concentric circles, the smallest, inner one yielding nine points to the player driving his ball within it; the next largest, eight points; a third, seven points. On the par-5 holes there were systems of circles for second-shots to reach. At the greens, the cup was the bull's-eye and there was a special bonus for holing shots from off the putting surface...
Last week it was announced that Mr. Curtis had called him to become editor-in-chief of the New York Evening Post-the oldest and the smallest (in, circulation) newspaper of the Metropolis. Doubtless the salary is appropriate to the post-a post which has been filled by such famed editors as Alexander Hamilton, William Cullen Bryant, I Carl Schurz, E. L. Godkin, Horace White, Rollo Ogden. Said Editor-elect Mason: "I believe the property [newspaper] has an assured future...