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Shakespeare, as well as Gibbon, Mommsen and other amateur detectives pinned the crime on Brutus; but Mr. Irwin's hero, Manlius Scribo, star reporter on "The Evening Tiber," the first experiment in tabloidia, had his own ideas about the murder. And Manny Scribo was on the spot...
Some years ago in Rome. King Gustaf V of Sweden and his Queen Victoria paid a visit to an ancient house on the Campo di Fiori near the bank of the Tiber. Good Lutherans as they must be by law, the monarchs of Sweden were interested in the house because there, in 1373, died a great and pious Swedish woman, St. Bridget. In the chapel they viewed relics of the founder of the Brigittine Order. Then Queen Victoria spied a nun in a habit different from those of the barefoot Carmelites who occupied the house. She spoke...
...runs the Greek legend. Lately Italian archeologists, probing the sand dunes near the ancient port of Ostia at the mouth of the yellow Tiber, turned up a marble statue of Perseus, a curly-haired youth clutching his dreadful trophy. The statue bore some resemblance to the Hermes of Praxiteles, was apparently carved in the Graeco-Roman period...
Swooping down, the seaplane landed just at the mouth of Rome's river, muddy Father Tiber. A motorcar whisked Sir John to the British Embassy. There he found the strongest foe in Rome to any change in the League, patient, sandy-mustached Sir Eric Drummond, now British Ambassador but for 14 years Secretary General of the League. Talks between II Duce and Sir John quickly crystallized around the issue of Disarmament. In Berlin the French Ambassador, bristling M. André François-Poncet who has personal connections with the French munitions firm of Schneider & Cie., had just delivered...
From Lisbon the armada flew non-stop to its glorious homecoming. Practically all of Rome and its hordes of visitors flocked to Fiumicino Airport at the mouth of the muddy Tiber, 15 mi. outside the city, to see the planes arrive. As usual Balbo's triad landed first to a deafening frenzy of cheering, whistle-blowing, bell-clanging, cannon-shooting. The General taxied his plane alongside an improvised receiving stand (a derrick platform) where stood Benito Mussolini, Crown Prince Umberto, the King's aviator-cousin the Duke of Aosta, U. S. Ambassador Breckinridge Long. He stood...