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Fifty harps twanged Mendelssohn's "Wedding March." Imposing, the Cathedral of Palermo had been hung with rich tapestries, decked with carloads of flowers and on view was the Cathedral treasure: a sacred stole blazing with Byzantine gems which once studded the mantle of the Empress Constantia. But as he knelt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Million-Dollar Nuptials | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

At a ball in the U. S. Legation at Belgrade, H. R. H. Princess Olga, cousin of Dictator King Alexander, suddenly discovered that her gold-mesh, diamond-studded handbag had disappeared. . . .

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUGOSLAVIA: Belgrade Vindicated | 1/19/1931 | See Source »

Founder of the present collection was the Guelph Duke Henry the Lion, who died in 1195, left his son Otto IV the collection of gold and jewel-studded relics which grateful Eastern emperors had given him in Constantinople. Otto IV donated the treasure, adding more himself, to the Cathedral of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Welfenschatz | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

Some of the wounds they deal with: "One buttock is lacerated; bleeding has stopped, but he is in a horrible mess . . . There is a hole above the temple as big as an apple. His closed eyes bulge under blue lids; his puffy face is green. He has torn away the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Reminder | 10/20/1930 | See Source »

New Hampshire. Unopposed for Republican renomination was Senator Henry Wilder Keyes. John Gilbert Winant, one-time (1925-26) Governor, shattered the State's one-term gubernatorial tradition when he received the Republican nomination for Governor over Arthur P. Morrill who had the support of Senator George Higgins Moses. Nominees...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Makings of the 72nd (Cont.) | 9/22/1930 | See Source »

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