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...dipped. A Roman rabble surged and roared. Four plumed steeds cavorted proudly, their path cleared by resplendent policemen. At the Palazzo Chigi out of a triumphal oldtime open coach, stepped General of the Air Umberto Nobile (TIME, Aug. 2, SCIENCE), to be saluted and embraced in person by his swart Excellency, Benito Mussolini. Shortly, master and man appeared on the Chigi balcony, where Mussolini's jowls became suffused with blood, his muscular throat thick with emotion...
...Nobile, resplendent in his white uniform, refused to pose for photographers until brought his Titina by an attendant who had been separated from him by milling mobs of Italians and detained by ignorant police. "I am sorry to leave America," he then said, strik- ing an attitude beside his swart friend, Rudolph Valentino, "and I am glad to be going home...
...Metropolitan Open Golf Tournament, after beginning the final round three strokes behind small swart MacDonald Smith , small swart Gene Sarazen regained the three strokes and three more, seemed to have the crown in the bottom of his immense bag. Then, on the last two holes, came a three-putt green and a fumbled approach, and he and Smith were tied...
...building stood adjacent to a mosque. Local Moslems took council. Were shadowy Christian pie-throwers to shuffle oversize feet, thumb noses, within nine paces of the shrine of Allah? Were milk-faced movie harlots to pervert the yearnings of Mohammedans for the swart-skinned houris of Paradise...
Golf club officials had brought them together ? swart Walter Hagen and blond Amateur Champion Bobby Jones. No title impended; it was primarily an affair of honor between two of the keenest match-playy golfers that ever cut a divot. It was also a great resort attraction. They had set aside two Sundays to render each other satisfaction. On the first, Hagen came off 8 up after 36 holes played at Sarasota. The second Sunday found them threading the lagoons and jungled ravines of the Pasadena course at St. Petersburg (Hagen's home links this winter...