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Recently the President of the academy, a senator named Tommaso Tittoni, was stricken with paralysis. A prominent member, Professor Alfredo Trombetti, went swimming at the Lido last summer, drowned in the lukewarm Adriatic. Giocchino Volpe, secretary of the academy, has had three recent operations on his defective ear. But of all the academicians, most luckless is Antonio Beltramelli, Fascist author of Il Uomo Nuovo, "The New Man," a paeon praising Il Duce. To celebrate his immortality he dyed his remaining hair a rich and glossy black. The hair dye soaked into his skull, affected his brain, according to his doctor...
Died. Alfredo Trombetti, 63, famed Italian philologist, of heart failure while bathing off the Lido, Venice...
...drowned man was Professor Alfredo Trombetti, 63. Once a barber's apprentice, he studied languages, won a scholarship at the University of Bologna, later a Government money grant to concentrate on the Etruscan mystery. He announced last April that soon he would reveal startling findings, but not before they were complete. Scholars waited anxiously to hear whether he had left any notes on his life work, and whether the notes, if any, were decipherable...
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